diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 29cafd8f05..0c830ba71f 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ def register_socks_protocols():
 compiled_regex_type = type(re.compile(''))
 
 std_headers = {
-    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0 (Chrome)',
+    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0',
     'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7',
     'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
     'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',