diff --git a/gravity.sh b/gravity.sh
index 276e59c2..f6d09ac5 100755
--- a/gravity.sh
+++ b/gravity.sh
@@ -507,17 +507,12 @@ gravity_DownloadBlocklists() {
     echo -e "  ${INFO} Libz compression not available\n"
   fi
 
-  # Check if etag is supported by the locally available version of curl by
-  # comparing the version string being >= 7.68.0 (released Jan 2020)
-  # https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/4543 followed by
+  # Check if etag is supported by the locally available version of curl
+  # (available as of curl 7.68.0, released Jan 2020)
+  # https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/4543 +
   # https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/4678
-  if echo "${curlVersion}" | grep -q "curl 7\.[6-9][8-9]"; then
+  if curl --help all | grep -q "etag-save"; then
     etag_support=true
-  else
-    # Check if the version is >= 8
-    if echo "${curlVersion}" | grep -q "curl 8"; then
-      etag_support=true
-    fi
   fi
 
   # Loop through $sources and download each one