diff --git a/plugins/FeedReader/gui/FeedReaderStringDefs.cpp b/plugins/FeedReader/gui/FeedReaderStringDefs.cpp
index 647c4cf7b..07f0d44ab 100644
--- a/plugins/FeedReader/gui/FeedReaderStringDefs.cpp
+++ b/plugins/FeedReader/gui/FeedReaderStringDefs.cpp
@@ -101,6 +101,9 @@ QString FeedReaderStringDefs::errorString(RsFeedReaderErrorState errorState, con
 	case RS_FEED_ERRORSTATE_DOWNLOAD_UNKOWN_RESPONSE_CODE:
 		errorText = QApplication::translate("FeedReaderStringDefs", "Unknown response code");
 		break;
+	case RS_FEED_ERRORSTATE_DOWNLOAD_BLOCKED:
+		errorText = QApplication::translate("FeedReaderStringDefs", "Download blocked");
+		break;
 
 	/* process */
 	case RS_FEED_ERRORSTATE_PROCESS_INTERNAL_ERROR:
diff --git a/plugins/FeedReader/interface/rsFeedReader.h b/plugins/FeedReader/interface/rsFeedReader.h
index ad1ecec9a..044dcdd80 100644
--- a/plugins/FeedReader/interface/rsFeedReader.h
+++ b/plugins/FeedReader/interface/rsFeedReader.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ enum RsFeedReaderErrorState {
 	RS_FEED_ERRORSTATE_DOWNLOAD_UNKNOWN_CONTENT_TYPE  = 3,
 	RS_FEED_ERRORSTATE_DOWNLOAD_NOT_FOUND             = 4,
 	RS_FEED_ERRORSTATE_DOWNLOAD_UNKOWN_RESPONSE_CODE  = 5,
+	RS_FEED_ERRORSTATE_DOWNLOAD_BLOCKED               = 6,
 
 	/* process */
 	RS_FEED_ERRORSTATE_PROCESS_INTERNAL_ERROR         = 50,
diff --git a/plugins/FeedReader/lang/FeedReader_en.ts b/plugins/FeedReader/lang/FeedReader_en.ts
index 93db4a686..db5748893 100644
--- a/plugins/FeedReader/lang/FeedReader_en.ts
+++ b/plugins/FeedReader/lang/FeedReader_en.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
     <message>
-        <location line="+92"/>
+        <location line="+398"/>
         <source>Board</source>
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
     <message>
-        <location line="+12"/>
+        <location line="-391"/>
         <source>Authentication (not yet supported)</source>
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
@@ -84,12 +84,12 @@
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
     <message>
-        <location line="+121"/>
+        <location line="+88"/>
         <source>Embed images</source>
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
     <message>
-        <location line="-249"/>
+        <location line="-216"/>
         <source>Storage time</source>
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
     <message>
-        <location line="-203"/>
+        <location line="+200"/>
         <source>Type</source>
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
     <message>
-        <location line="+299"/>
+        <location line="-67"/>
         <source>Transformation</source>
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
     <message>
-        <location line="+12"/>
+        <location line="-58"/>
         <source>Misc</source>
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
@@ -169,17 +169,17 @@
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
     <message>
-        <location line="-336"/>
+        <location line="+100"/>
         <source>Update forum information</source>
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
     <message>
-        <location line="+350"/>
+        <location line="-86"/>
         <source>Save complete web page (experimental for local feeds)</source>
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
     <message>
-        <location line="-103"/>
+        <location line="-70"/>
         <source>Description:</source>
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
@@ -714,12 +714,12 @@
     </message>
     <message>
         <location line="+3"/>
-        <location line="+108"/>
+        <location line="+111"/>
         <source>Unknown</source>
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
     <message>
-        <location line="-91"/>
+        <location line="-94"/>
         <source>Internal download error</source>
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
@@ -743,6 +743,11 @@
         <source>Unknown response code</source>
         <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
     </message>
+    <message>
+        <location line="+3"/>
+        <source>Download blocked</source>
+        <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
+    </message>
     <message>
         <location line="+5"/>
         <source>Internal process error</source>
diff --git a/plugins/FeedReader/services/p3FeedReaderThread.cc b/plugins/FeedReader/services/p3FeedReaderThread.cc
index 00da7a007..1c8714a05 100644
--- a/plugins/FeedReader/services/p3FeedReaderThread.cc
+++ b/plugins/FeedReader/services/p3FeedReaderThread.cc
@@ -302,6 +302,9 @@ RsFeedReaderErrorState p3FeedReaderThread::download(const RsFeedReaderFeed &feed
 				}
 			}
 			break;
+		case 403:
+			result = RS_FEED_ERRORSTATE_DOWNLOAD_BLOCKED;
+			break;
 		case 404:
 			result = RS_FEED_ERRORSTATE_DOWNLOAD_NOT_FOUND;
 			break;
diff --git a/plugins/FeedReader/util/CURLWrapper.cpp b/plugins/FeedReader/util/CURLWrapper.cpp
index 87fd986ff..94ae7beaa 100644
--- a/plugins/FeedReader/util/CURLWrapper.cpp
+++ b/plugins/FeedReader/util/CURLWrapper.cpp
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 #include "CURLWrapper.h"
 #include <string.h>
 
+#define USERAGENT "Mozilla/5.0 (rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/112.0"
+
 CURLWrapper::CURLWrapper(const std::string &proxy)
 {
 	mCurl = curl_easy_init();
@@ -65,6 +67,7 @@ CURLcode CURLWrapper::downloadText(const std::string &link, std::string &data)
 	curl_easy_setopt(mCurl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, writeFunctionString);
 	curl_easy_setopt(mCurl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &data);
 	curl_easy_setopt(mCurl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
+	curl_easy_setopt(mCurl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, USERAGENT);
 
 	return curl_easy_perform(mCurl);
 }
@@ -95,6 +98,7 @@ CURLcode CURLWrapper::downloadBinary(const std::string &link, std::vector<unsign
 	curl_easy_setopt(mCurl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, writeFunctionBinary);
 	curl_easy_setopt(mCurl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &data);
 	curl_easy_setopt(mCurl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
+	curl_easy_setopt(mCurl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, USERAGENT);
 
 	return curl_easy_perform(mCurl);
 }