diff --git a/backend/config.py b/backend/config.py
index 1266925..1abf54f 100644
--- a/backend/config.py
+++ b/backend/config.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from pydantic_settings import BaseSettings
 
 class Settings(BaseSettings):
     database_url: str = "postgresql+asyncpg://reddit:changeme@localhost:5432/reddit_monitor"
-    reddit_user_agent: str = "reddit-monitor:v1.0"
+    reddit_user_agent: str = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
     seed_subreddits: str = ""
     digest_hour_utc: int = 23
     ai_summary_enabled: bool = False