diff --git a/DIFFERENCES.md b/DIFFERENCES.md
index c28fb295..f9b05c7b 100644
--- a/DIFFERENCES.md
+++ b/DIFFERENCES.md
@@ -37,4 +37,5 @@
 - Add debug admin command to force update user device lists (could potentially resolve some E2EE flukes) (`ForceDeviceListUpdates`)
 - Declare various missing Matrix versions and features at `/_matrix/client/versions`
 - Add support for serving server and client well-known files from conduwuit using `well_known_client` and `well_known_server` options
-- Add non-standard sliding sync proxy health check (?) endpoint at `/client/server.json` that some clients such as Element Web query using the `well_known_client` or `well_known_server` config options
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+- Add non-standard sliding sync proxy health check (?) endpoint at `/client/server.json` that some clients such as Element Web query using the `well_known_client` or `well_known_server` config options
+- Send a User-Agent on all of our requests (`conduwuit/0.7.0-alpha+conduwuit-0.1.1`) which strangely was not done upstream since forever. Some providers consider no User-Agent suspicious and block said requests.
diff --git a/src/service/globals/mod.rs b/src/service/globals/mod.rs
index bf8b3dfb..89e85fd4 100644
--- a/src/service/globals/mod.rs
+++ b/src/service/globals/mod.rs
@@ -542,7 +542,12 @@ fn reqwest_client_builder(config: &Config) -> Result<reqwest::ClientBuilder> {
     let mut reqwest_client_builder = reqwest::Client::builder()
         .pool_max_idle_per_host(0)
         .connect_timeout(Duration::from_secs(60))
-        .timeout(Duration::from_secs(60 * 5));
+        .timeout(Duration::from_secs(60 * 5))
+        .user_agent(concat!(
+            env!("CARGO_PKG_NAME"),
+            "/",
+            env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION")
+        ));
 
     if let Some(proxy) = config.proxy.to_proxy()? {
         reqwest_client_builder = reqwest_client_builder.proxy(proxy);