diff --git a/browser_init.go b/browser_init.go
index f009400..694603c 100644
--- a/browser_init.go
+++ b/browser_init.go
@@ -52,15 +52,11 @@ func initBrowser(opt BrowserOptions) (*browserInitResult, error) {
 		return nil, ErrInvalidBrowserSelection
 	}
 
-	// Auto-select a User-Agent matching the browser engine when the caller hasn't set one.
-	if opt.UserAgent == "" {
-		switch opt.Browser {
-		case BrowserChromium:
-			opt.UserAgent = DefaultChromiumUserAgent
-		default:
-			opt.UserAgent = DefaultFirefoxUserAgent
-		}
-	}
+	// User-Agent auto-selection is deferred until after browser launch so we
+	// can read the real browser version and build a UA that matches the
+	// sec-ch-ua header Chromium sends automatically. A mismatched version
+	// (e.g. UA says Chrome/131 while sec-ch-ua says Chromium/136) is a
+	// well-known bot-detection signal that causes 403s on many sites.
 
 	// Collect launch args and init scripts, starting with any stealth-mode presets.
 	stealth := opt.Stealth == nil || *opt.Stealth
@@ -117,6 +113,16 @@ func initBrowser(opt BrowserOptions) (*browserInitResult, error) {
 		}
 	}
 
+	// Auto-select User-Agent now that we know the real browser version.
+	if opt.UserAgent == "" {
+		switch opt.Browser {
+		case BrowserChromium:
+			opt.UserAgent = chromiumUserAgent(browser.Version())
+		default:
+			opt.UserAgent = DefaultFirefoxUserAgent
+		}
+	}
+
 	var viewport *playwright.Size
 	if opt.Dimensions.Width > 0 && opt.Dimensions.Height > 0 {
 		viewport = &playwright.Size{
diff --git a/stealth.go b/stealth.go
index c61c63e..af7f197 100644
--- a/stealth.go
+++ b/stealth.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package extractor
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"math/rand/v2"
+	"strings"
 )
 
 // stealthChromiumArgs are launch arguments that reduce automation detection for Chromium-based browsers.
@@ -269,3 +270,20 @@ func buildFirefoxStealthScripts(p firefoxHWProfile) []string {
 	})`,
 	}
 }
+
+// chromiumUserAgent builds a Chromium User-Agent string from the actual
+// browser version. This keeps the UA in sync with the sec-ch-ua header
+// that Chromium sends automatically, avoiding a version mismatch that
+// anti-bot systems use to detect automation.
+func chromiumUserAgent(version string) string {
+	// version is typically "136.0.7103.25"; we need the major for the
+	// Chrome/MAJ.0.0.0 token and the full version for the template.
+	major := version
+	if i := strings.IndexByte(version, '.'); i > 0 {
+		major = version[:i]
+	}
+	return fmt.Sprintf(
+		"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/%s.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
+		major,
+	)
+}
diff --git a/stealth_test.go b/stealth_test.go
index 0375406..700d753 100644
--- a/stealth_test.go
+++ b/stealth_test.go
@@ -420,6 +420,23 @@ func TestDefaultChromiumUserAgent_Content(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestChromiumUserAgent_MatchesVersion(t *testing.T) {
+	ua := chromiumUserAgent("136.0.7103.25")
+	if !strings.Contains(ua, "Chrome/136.0.0.0") {
+		t.Fatalf("expected Chrome/136.0.0.0 in UA, got %s", ua)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(ua, "131") {
+		t.Fatalf("UA must not contain old hardcoded version 131: %s", ua)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestChromiumUserAgent_MajorOnly(t *testing.T) {
+	ua := chromiumUserAgent("140")
+	if !strings.Contains(ua, "Chrome/140.0.0.0") {
+		t.Fatalf("expected Chrome/140.0.0.0 in UA, got %s", ua)
+	}
+}
+
 // --- Viewport and UA defaults via mergeOptions ---
 
 func TestMergeOptions_DefaultViewport(t *testing.T) {