diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 85f8d82..18fcafa 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -496,6 +496,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "compression-core",
  "flate2",
  "memchr",
+ "zstd",
+ "zstd-safe",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3680,6 +3682,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio-btls",
  "tokio-socks",
  "tower",
+ "tower-http",
  "url",
  "webpki-root-certs",
  "wreq-proto",
diff --git a/crates/obscura-net/Cargo.toml b/crates/obscura-net/Cargo.toml
index 308129b..e4d41e6 100644
--- a/crates/obscura-net/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/obscura-net/Cargo.toml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ tokio-rustls = { version = "0.26", default-features = false, features = ["ring",
 # Enabling it on other platforms produces unresolved `build_script_main_*`
 # symbols at link time (see issue #39).
 [target.'cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android"))'.dependencies]
-wreq = { version = "=6.0.0-rc.29", optional = true, features = ["prefix-symbols", "socks"] }
+wreq = { version = "=6.0.0-rc.29", optional = true, features = ["prefix-symbols", "socks", "gzip", "brotli", "deflate", "zstd"] }
 
 [target.'cfg(not(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android")))'.dependencies]
-wreq = { version = "=6.0.0-rc.29", optional = true, features = ["socks"] }
+wreq = { version = "=6.0.0-rc.29", optional = true, features = ["socks", "gzip", "brotli", "deflate", "zstd"] }
diff --git a/crates/obscura-net/src/wreq_client.rs b/crates/obscura-net/src/wreq_client.rs
index 397e1c1..e3e2c15 100644
--- a/crates/obscura-net/src/wreq_client.rs
+++ b/crates/obscura-net/src/wreq_client.rs
@@ -278,3 +278,65 @@ impl StealthHttpClient {
         self.active_requests() == 0
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(all(test, feature = "stealth"))]
+mod tests {
+    use std::sync::Arc;
+
+    use tokio::io::{AsyncReadExt, AsyncWriteExt};
+    use url::Url;
+
+    use super::StealthHttpClient;
+    use crate::cookies::CookieJar;
+
+    const PLAIN_BODY: &str = "<!DOCTYPE html><html><body><p id=\"mark\">gzip ok</p></body></html>";
+
+    // gzip (level 9) of PLAIN_BODY, hardcoded so the fixture needs no
+    // compression dependency. A wrong byte fails the assert below.
+    const GZIP_BODY: &[u8] = &[
+        0x1f, 0x8b, 0x08, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x02, 0x03, 0xb3, 0x51,
+        0x74, 0xf1, 0x77, 0x0e, 0x89, 0x0c, 0x70, 0x55, 0xc8, 0x28, 0xc9, 0xcd,
+        0xb1, 0xb3, 0x81, 0x90, 0x49, 0xf9, 0x29, 0x95, 0x76, 0x36, 0x05, 0x0a,
+        0x99, 0x29, 0xb6, 0x4a, 0xb9, 0x89, 0x45, 0xd9, 0x4a, 0x76, 0xe9, 0x55,
+        0x99, 0x05, 0x0a, 0xf9, 0xd9, 0x36, 0xfa, 0x05, 0x76, 0x36, 0xfa, 0x10,
+        0x69, 0x7d, 0xb0, 0x5a, 0x00, 0x80, 0x3d, 0x1c, 0x5f, 0x41, 0x00, 0x00,
+        0x00,
+    ];
+
+    /// Serve one `Content-Encoding: gzip` response on an ephemeral port.
+    async fn gzip_fixture() -> u16 {
+        let listener = tokio::net::TcpListener::bind("127.0.0.1:0").await.unwrap();
+        let port = listener.local_addr().unwrap().port();
+
+        tokio::spawn(async move {
+            while let Ok((mut stream, _)) = listener.accept().await {
+                tokio::spawn(async move {
+                    let mut buf = [0u8; 1024];
+                    let _ = stream.read(&mut buf).await;
+                    let head = format!(
+                        "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\ncontent-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\ncontent-encoding: gzip\r\ncontent-length: {}\r\nconnection: close\r\n\r\n",
+                        GZIP_BODY.len()
+                    );
+                    let _ = stream.write_all(head.as_bytes()).await;
+                    let _ = stream.write_all(GZIP_BODY).await;
+                    let _ = stream.shutdown().await;
+                });
+            }
+        });
+
+        port
+    }
+
+    // The emulation profile advertises gzip, so origins compress. Without the
+    // decoder the raw gzip bytes reach the HTML parser as document text.
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn stealth_client_decodes_gzip_response() {
+        let port = gzip_fixture().await;
+        let client = StealthHttpClient::new(Arc::new(CookieJar::new()));
+        let url = Url::parse(&format!("http://127.0.0.1:{port}/")).unwrap();
+
+        let resp = client.fetch(&url).await.expect("fixture must be reachable");
+        assert_eq!(resp.status, 200);
+        assert_eq!(resp.text(), PLAIN_BODY, "gzip body must be decompressed");
+    }
+}