diff --git a/code/processes/crawling-process/java/nu/marginalia/crawl/fetcher/HttpFetcherImpl.java b/code/processes/crawling-process/java/nu/marginalia/crawl/fetcher/HttpFetcherImpl.java
index f4b111e2..03075e91 100644
--- a/code/processes/crawling-process/java/nu/marginalia/crawl/fetcher/HttpFetcherImpl.java
+++ b/code/processes/crawling-process/java/nu/marginalia/crawl/fetcher/HttpFetcherImpl.java
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ public class HttpFetcherImpl implements HttpFetcher {
         getBuilder.url(url.toString())
                 .addHeader("Accept-Encoding", "gzip")
                 .addHeader("Accept-Language", "en,*;q=0.5")
-                .addHeader("Accept", "text/html, application/xhtml+xml, */*;q=0.8")
+                .addHeader("Accept", "text/html, application/xhtml+xml, text/*;q=0.8")
                 .addHeader("User-agent", userAgentString);
 
         contentTags.paint(getBuilder);
diff --git a/code/processes/crawling-process/java/nu/marginalia/crawl/retreival/CrawlerRetreiver.java b/code/processes/crawling-process/java/nu/marginalia/crawl/retreival/CrawlerRetreiver.java
index 4666aaa9..ab6456de 100644
--- a/code/processes/crawling-process/java/nu/marginalia/crawl/retreival/CrawlerRetreiver.java
+++ b/code/processes/crawling-process/java/nu/marginalia/crawl/retreival/CrawlerRetreiver.java
@@ -321,6 +321,9 @@ public class CrawlerRetreiver implements AutoCloseable {
 
         long probeStart = System.currentTimeMillis();
 
+        /*
+        probing is on probation for now while we evaluate how much the added delays slows down the crawler
+
         if (probeType == HttpFetcher.ProbeType.FULL) {
             for (int i = 0; i <= HTTP_429_RETRY_LIMIT; i++) {
                 try {
@@ -348,9 +351,10 @@ public class CrawlerRetreiver implements AutoCloseable {
                     return new HttpFetchResult.ResultException(ex);
                 }
             }
-        }
 
         timer.waitFetchDelay(System.currentTimeMillis() - probeStart);
+        }*/
+
 
         for (int i = 0; i <= HTTP_429_RETRY_LIMIT; i++) {
             try {