diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f0beaab3..070ba220 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -453,32 +453,6 @@
             <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
             <version>27.0.1-jre</version>
             <optional>true</optional>
-            <exclusions>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>failureaccess</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>listenablefuture</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>jsr305</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>com.google.errorprone</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>error_prone_annotations</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>com.google.j2objc</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>j2objc-annotations</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>animal-sniffer-annotations</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
         </dependency>
 
         <!-- MaxMind GEO IP with our modifications to use GSON in replacement of the big Jackson dependency -->
@@ -488,6 +462,12 @@
             <artifactId>maxmind-db-gson</artifactId>
             <version>2.0.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
             <optional>true</optional>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
         </dependency>
 
         <!-- Library for tar archives -->