diff --git a/modules/fediverse/ap_utils.py b/modules/fediverse/ap_utils.py
index bd0cacf4..a2191014 100644
--- a/modules/fediverse/ap_utils.py
+++ b/modules/fediverse/ap_utils.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ LD_TYPE = ("application/ld+json; "
     "profile=\"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams\"")
 JRD_TYPE = "application/jrd+json"
 ACTIVITY_TYPE = "application/activity+json"
-USERAGENT = "BitBot (%s) Fediverse" % IRCBot.VERSION
 
 def split_username(s):
     if s[0] == "@":
@@ -26,7 +25,7 @@ def activity_request(url, data=None, method="GET", type=ACTIVITY_TYPE,
     else:
         headers = {"Accept": type}
 
-    request = utils.http.Request(url, headers=headers, useragent=USERAGENT,
+    request = utils.http.Request(url, headers=headers,
         content_type=content_type, post_data=data, method=method, json=True,
         json_body=True, fallback_encoding="utf8")
     return utils.http.request(request)
diff --git a/src/utils/http.py b/src/utils/http.py
index f31da62c..3cae97ea 100644
--- a/src/utils/http.py
+++ b/src/utils/http.py
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 import asyncio, codecs, ipaddress, re, signal, socket, traceback, typing
 import urllib.error, urllib.parse, uuid
 import json as _json
-import bs4, netifaces, requests
-import tornado.httpclient
-from src import utils
+import bs4, netifaces, requests, tornado.httpclient
+from src import IRCBot, utils
 
 REGEX_URL = re.compile("https?://\S+", re.I)
 
@@ -29,8 +28,8 @@ def url_sanitise(url: str):
                 url = url[:-1]
     return url
 
-DEFAULT_USERAGENT = ("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 "
-    "(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.87 Safari/537.36")
+USERAGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; BitBot/%s; +%s" % (
+    IRCBot.VERSION, IRCBot.URL)
 
 RESPONSE_MAX = (1024*1024)*100
 SOUP_CONTENT_TYPES = ["text/html", "text/xml", "application/xml"]
@@ -113,7 +112,7 @@ class Request(object):
         if not "Accept-Language" in headers:
             headers["Accept-Language"] = "en-GB"
         if not "User-Agent" in headers:
-            headers["User-Agent"] = self.useragent or DEFAULT_USERAGENT
+            headers["User-Agent"] = self.useragent or USERAGENT
         if not "Content-Type" in headers and self.content_type:
             headers["Content-Type"] = self.content_type
         return headers