diff --git a/git-curl-compat.h b/git-curl-compat.h
index 65ba1ee0f8..703756ba85 100644
--- a/git-curl-compat.h
+++ b/git-curl-compat.h
@@ -28,14 +28,6 @@
  * introduced, oldest first, in the official version of cURL library.
  */
 
-/**
- * CURLSSLSET_{NO_BACKENDS,OK,TOO_LATE,UNKNOWN_BACKEND} were added in
- * 7.56.0, released in September 2017.
- */
-#if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x073800
-#define GIT_CURL_HAVE_CURLSSLSET_NO_BACKENDS
-#endif
-
 /**
  * Versions before curl 7.66.0 (September 2019) required manually setting the
  * transfer-encoding for a streaming POST; after that this is handled
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index c5fdf1cd4c..4d59f11ad2 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -1275,7 +1275,6 @@ void http_init(struct remote *remote, const char *url, int proactive_auth)
 	free(normalized_url);
 	string_list_clear(&config.vars, 1);
 
-#ifdef GIT_CURL_HAVE_CURLSSLSET_NO_BACKENDS
 	if (http_ssl_backend) {
 		const curl_ssl_backend **backends;
 		struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
@@ -1300,7 +1299,6 @@ void http_init(struct remote *remote, const char *url, int proactive_auth)
 			break; /* Okay! */
 		}
 	}
-#endif
 
 	if (curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL) != CURLE_OK)
 		die("curl_global_init failed");