diff --git a/changedetectionio/content_fetchers/requests.py b/changedetectionio/content_fetchers/requests.py
index b743dbce..2c28cda7 100644
--- a/changedetectionio/content_fetchers/requests.py
+++ b/changedetectionio/content_fetchers/requests.py
@@ -30,11 +30,6 @@ class fetcher(Fetcher):
         if self.browser_steps_get_valid_steps():
             raise BrowserStepsInUnsupportedFetcher(url=url)
 
-        # Make requests use a more modern looking user-agent
-        if not {k.lower(): v for k, v in request_headers.items()}.get('user-agent', None):
-            request_headers['User-Agent'] = os.getenv("DEFAULT_SETTINGS_HEADERS_USERAGENT",
-                                                      'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36')
-
         proxies = {}
 
         # Allows override the proxy on a per-request basis
diff --git a/changedetectionio/model/App.py b/changedetectionio/model/App.py
index a8491890..75384f17 100644
--- a/changedetectionio/model/App.py
+++ b/changedetectionio/model/App.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from changedetectionio.notification import (
 )
 
 _FILTER_FAILURE_THRESHOLD_ATTEMPTS_DEFAULT = 6
+DEFAULT_SETTINGS_HEADERS_USERAGENT='Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36'
 
 class model(dict):
     base_config = {
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ class model(dict):
                     'timeout': int(getenv("DEFAULT_SETTINGS_REQUESTS_TIMEOUT", "45")),  # Default 45 seconds
                     'workers': int(getenv("DEFAULT_SETTINGS_REQUESTS_WORKERS", "10")),  # Number of threads, lower is better for slow connections
                     'default_ua': {
-                        'html_requests': None,
+                        'html_requests': getenv("DEFAULT_SETTINGS_HEADERS_USERAGENT", DEFAULT_SETTINGS_HEADERS_USERAGENT),
                         'html_webdriver': None,
                     }
                 },