diff --git a/internal/provider/privateinternetaccess/openvpnconf.go b/internal/provider/privateinternetaccess/openvpnconf.go
index 5e16b205..cb8eebbc 100644
--- a/internal/provider/privateinternetaccess/openvpnconf.go
+++ b/internal/provider/privateinternetaccess/openvpnconf.go
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ func (p *PIA) BuildConf(connection models.Connection,
 		// PIA specific
 		"reneg-sec 0",
 		"disable-occ",
-		"compress",    // allow PIA server to choose the compression to use
 		"ncp-disable", // prevent from auto-upgrading cipher to aes-256-gcm
 
 		// Added constant values
diff --git a/internal/provider/torguard/openvpnconf.go b/internal/provider/torguard/openvpnconf.go
index 1079cd16..73b0e1b7 100644
--- a/internal/provider/torguard/openvpnconf.go
+++ b/internal/provider/torguard/openvpnconf.go
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ func (t *Torguard) BuildConf(connection models.Connection,
 		"key-direction 1",
 		"script-security 2",
 		"ncp-disable",
-		"compress",
 		"keepalive 5 30",
 		"sndbuf 393216",
 		"rcvbuf 393216",