diff --git a/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py b/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
index 260ec1701..8400fc057 100644
--- a/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
+++ b/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ CLOSESPIDER_ERRORCOUNT = 0
 COMMANDS_MODULE = ""
 
 COMPRESSION_ENABLED = True
-
+COMPRESSION_KEEP_ENCODING_HEADER = False
 CONCURRENT_ITEMS = 100
 
 CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 16
diff --git a/scrapy/templates/project/module/settings.py.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/project/module/settings.py.tmpl
index ecb1e5e5c..9d337c530 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/project/module/settings.py.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/project/module/settings.py.tmpl
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ ROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True
 #HTTPCACHE_DIR = "httpcache"
 #HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []
 #HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = "scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage"
+COMPRESSION_KEEP_ENCODING_HEADER = True
 
 # Set settings whose default value is deprecated to a future-proof value
 REQUEST_FINGERPRINTER_IMPLEMENTATION = "2.7"