diff --git a/fanficdownloader/adapters/adapter_hpfanficarchivecom.py b/fanficdownloader/adapters/adapter_hpfanficarchivecom.py
index 8a57e359..754132db 100644
--- a/fanficdownloader/adapters/adapter_hpfanficarchivecom.py
+++ b/fanficdownloader/adapters/adapter_hpfanficarchivecom.py
@@ -37,11 +37,6 @@ class HPFanficArchiveComAdapter(BaseSiteAdapter):
     def __init__(self, config, url):
         BaseSiteAdapter.__init__(self, config, url)
 
-        # hpfanficarchive.com blocks the default user-agent.  However,
-        # when asked, they said it was just general anti-spam, not
-        # targeted at us.  That lets me do this in good conscience:
-        self.opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'FFDL/1.7')]
-        
         self.decode = ["Windows-1252",
                        "utf8"] # 1252 is a superset of iso-8859-1.
                                # Most sites that claim to be
diff --git a/fanficdownloader/adapters/adapter_ncisfictionnet.py b/fanficdownloader/adapters/adapter_ncisfictionnet.py
index f057c8f8..8fea5a7c 100644
--- a/fanficdownloader/adapters/adapter_ncisfictionnet.py
+++ b/fanficdownloader/adapters/adapter_ncisfictionnet.py
@@ -37,11 +37,6 @@ class NCISFictionNetAdapter(BaseSiteAdapter):
     def __init__(self, config, url):
         BaseSiteAdapter.__init__(self, config, url)
 
-        # ncisfiction.net blocks the default user-agent.  However,
-        # when asked, they said it was just general anti-spam, not
-        # targeted at us.  That lets me do this in good conscience:
-        self.opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'FFDL/1.7')]
-        
         self.decode = ["iso-8859-1",
                        "Windows-1252"] # 1252 is a superset of iso-8859-1.
                                # Most sites that claim to be
diff --git a/fanficdownloader/adapters/base_adapter.py b/fanficdownloader/adapters/base_adapter.py
index ef0dc448..46273f8c 100644
--- a/fanficdownloader/adapters/base_adapter.py
+++ b/fanficdownloader/adapters/base_adapter.py
@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ class BaseSiteAdapter(Configurable):
         self.is_adult=False
         
         self.opener = u2.build_opener(u2.HTTPCookieProcessor(),GZipProcessor())
+        ## Specific UA because too many sites are blocking the default python UA.
+        self.opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'FFDL/1.7')]
         self.storyDone = False
         self.metadataDone = False
         self.story = Story(configuration)