diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/instagram.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/instagram.py
index a43d3c15e2..dee8cb85d5 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/instagram.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/instagram.py
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ class InstagramBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
         'X-IG-WWW-Claim': '0',
         'Origin': 'https://www.instagram.com',
         'Accept': '*/*',
-        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
     }
 
     def _perform_login(self, username, password):