diff --git a/acme/setup.py b/acme/setup.py
index a38a64efb..baed93c65 100644
--- a/acme/setup.py
+++ b/acme/setup.py
@@ -6,10 +6,6 @@ from setuptools import setup
 version = '1.19.0.dev0'
 
 install_requires = [
-    # This dependency just exists to ensure that chardet is installed along
-    # with requests so it will use it instead of charset_normalizer. See
-    # https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/8964 for more info.
-    'chardet',
     'cryptography>=2.1.4',
     # formerly known as acme.jose:
     # 1.1.0+ is required to avoid the warnings described at