diff --git a/recipes/economist_news.recipe b/recipes/economist_news.recipe
index dd163dba4f..4fe15ac7f9 100644
--- a/recipes/economist_news.recipe
+++ b/recipes/economist_news.recipe
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 import json
 import time
+from uuid import uuid4
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from urllib.parse import quote, urlencode
 
@@ -191,10 +192,9 @@ class EconomistNews(BasicNewsRecipe):
             self.oldest_article = float(d)
 
     def get_browser(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        # Needed to bypass cloudflare
-        kwargs['user_agent'] = 'common_words/based'
+        kwargs['user_agent'] = 'TheEconomist-Lamarr-android'
         br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser(self, *args, **kwargs)
-        br.addheaders += [('Accept-Language', 'en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8')]
+        br.addheaders += [('x-request-id', str(uuid4()))]
         return br
 
     def economist_return_index(self, ans):