diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/nrk.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/nrk.py
index 6d01a25c3..5a62b50fc 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/nrk.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/nrk.py
@@ -60,8 +60,7 @@ class NRKBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
         return self._download_json(
             urljoin('https://psapi.nrk.no/', path),
             video_id, note or 'Downloading %s JSON' % item,
-            fatal=fatal, query=query,
-            headers={'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br'})
+            fatal=fatal, query=query)
 
 
 class NRKIE(NRKBaseIE):