diff --git a/.gn b/.gn
index 55dece74..47e858e6 100644
--- a/.gn
+++ b/.gn
@@ -31,12 +31,15 @@ default_args = {
   use_debug_fission = false
 
   v8_enable_sandbox = false
-  v8_enable_snapshot_compression = false
   v8_enable_javascript_promise_hooks = true
   v8_promise_internal_field_count = 1
   v8_use_external_startup_data = false
   v8_use_snapshot = true
 
+  # We prefer embedders to bring their own compression
+  v8_use_zlib = false
+  v8_enable_snapshot_compression = false
+
   # Disable handle zapping for performance
   v8_enable_handle_zapping = false
   # Ensure allocation of typed arrays and arraybuffers always goes through
diff --git a/third_party/zlib b/third_party/zlib
deleted file mode 160000
index 18d27fa1..00000000
--- a/third_party/zlib
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 18d27fa10b237fdfcbd8f0c65c19fe009981a3bc