diff --git a/cypress/support/commands.ts b/cypress/support/commands.ts
index c70c4e37e12..92f0b1aeeb6 100644
--- a/cypress/support/commands.ts
+++ b/cypress/support/commands.ts
@@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ function generateViewEvent(uuid: string, dsoType: string): void {
                 [XSRF_REQUEST_HEADER] : csrfToken,
                 // use a known public IP address to avoid being seen as a "bot"
                 'X-Forwarded-For': '1.1.1.1',
+                // Use a user-agent of a Firefox browser on Windows. This again avoids being seen as a "bot"
+                'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0',
             },
             //form: true, // indicates the body should be form urlencoded
             body: { targetId: uuid, targetType: dsoType },