diff --git a/recipes/bloomberg-business-week.recipe b/recipes/bloomberg-business-week.recipe
index 3c8acdabed..c90f9bfbc7 100644
--- a/recipes/bloomberg-business-week.recipe
+++ b/recipes/bloomberg-business-week.recipe
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ class Bloomberg(BasicNewsRecipe):
     ]
 
     def get_browser(self, *a, **kw):
-        kw['user_agent'] = 'common_words/based'
+        kw['user_agent'] = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0'
         br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser(self, *a, **kw)
         br.set_handle_redirect(False)
         return br
diff --git a/recipes/bloomberg.recipe b/recipes/bloomberg.recipe
index 10bf380349..0a1841bb3f 100644
--- a/recipes/bloomberg.recipe
+++ b/recipes/bloomberg.recipe
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ class Bloomberg(BasicNewsRecipe):
         return pt.name
 
     def get_browser(self, *a, **kw):
-        kw['user_agent'] = 'common_words/based'
+        kw['user_agent'] = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0'
         br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser(self, *a, **kw)
         br.set_handle_redirect(False)
         return br