diff --git a/packages/driver/cypress/e2e/e2e/origin/user_agent_override.cy.ts b/packages/driver/cypress/e2e/e2e/origin/user_agent_override.cy.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..539ccb61fabf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/driver/cypress/e2e/e2e/origin/user_agent_override.cy.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+// @see https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/22953
+// We modify the user agent to strip cypress and electron out of the user agent string to appear more chrome-like
+// this only happens in electron and when the experimentalModifyObstructiveThirdPartyCode flag is set to true
+describe('user agent override', {
+  browser: 'electron',
+}, () => {
+  it('persists modified user agent after cy.visit', () => {
+    cy.wrap(window.navigator.userAgent).as('userAgentBefore')
+    cy.visit('/fixtures/primary-origin.html')
+    cy.wrap(window.navigator.userAgent).then((userAgentAfter) => {
+      cy.get('@userAgentBefore').then((userAgentBefore) => {
+        expect(userAgentBefore).to.equal(userAgentAfter)
+      })
+    })
+  })
+
+  it('persists modified user agent after cy.reload', () => {
+    cy.wrap(window.navigator.userAgent).as('userAgentBefore')
+    cy.visit('/fixtures/primary-origin.html')
+    cy.reload()
+    cy.wrap(window.navigator.userAgent).then((userAgentAfter) => {
+      cy.get('@userAgentBefore').then((userAgentBefore) => {
+        expect(userAgentBefore).to.equal(userAgentAfter)
+      })
+    })
+  })
+
+  it('persists modified user agent after cy.go', () => {
+    cy.visit('/fixtures/primary-origin.html')
+    cy.get('a[data-cy="cross-origin-secondary-link"]').click()
+
+    cy.origin('http://foobar.com:3500', {
+      args: {
+        userAgentBefore: window.navigator.userAgent,
+      },
+    }, ({ userAgentBefore }) => {
+      cy.visit('http://www.foobar.com:3500/fixtures/dom.html')
+
+      cy.go('back')
+      cy.wrap(window.navigator.userAgent).then((userAgentAfter) => {
+        expect(userAgentBefore).to.equal(userAgentAfter)
+      })
+
+      cy.go('forward')
+      cy.wrap(window.navigator.userAgent).then((userAgentAfter) => {
+        expect(userAgentBefore).to.equal(userAgentAfter)
+      })
+    })
+  })
+})
diff --git a/packages/server/lib/browsers/electron.js b/packages/server/lib/browsers/electron.js
index a81e894b7fd8..0f432da86184 100644
--- a/packages/server/lib/browsers/electron.js
+++ b/packages/server/lib/browsers/electron.js
@@ -243,6 +243,13 @@ module.exports = {
 
       if (ua) {
         this._setUserAgent(win.webContents, ua)
+        // @see https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/22953
+      } else if (options.experimentalModifyObstructiveThirdPartyCode) {
+        const userAgent = this._getUserAgent(win.webContents)
+        // replace any obstructive electron user agents that contain electron or cypress references to appear more chrome-like
+        const modifiedNonObstructiveUserAgent = userAgent.replace(/Cypress.*?\s|[Ee]lectron.*?\s/g, '')
+
+        this._setUserAgent(win.webContents, modifiedNonObstructiveUserAgent)
       }
 
       const setProxy = () => {
@@ -415,6 +422,14 @@ module.exports = {
     return webContents.session.clearCache()
   },
 
+  _getUserAgent (webContents) {
+    const userAgent = webContents.session.getUserAgent()
+
+    debug('found user agent: %s', userAgent)
+
+    return userAgent
+  },
+
   _setUserAgent (webContents, userAgent) {
     debug('setting user agent to:', userAgent)
     // set both because why not
diff --git a/packages/server/lib/open_project.ts b/packages/server/lib/open_project.ts
index 6aec06dd4b5d..d4f00ff2fd46 100644
--- a/packages/server/lib/open_project.ts
+++ b/packages/server/lib/open_project.ts
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ export class OpenProject {
       isTextTerminal: cfg.isTextTerminal,
       downloadsFolder: cfg.downloadsFolder,
       experimentalSessionAndOrigin: cfg.experimentalSessionAndOrigin,
+      experimentalModifyObstructiveThirdPartyCode: cfg.experimentalModifyObstructiveThirdPartyCode,
     })
 
     // if we don't have the isHeaded property
diff --git a/packages/server/test/unit/browsers/electron_spec.js b/packages/server/test/unit/browsers/electron_spec.js
index 40d0b3a696d3..802d48415cd7 100644
--- a/packages/server/test/unit/browsers/electron_spec.js
+++ b/packages/server/test/unit/browsers/electron_spec.js
@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ describe('lib/browsers/electron', () => {
       sinon.stub(electron, '_clearCache').resolves()
       sinon.stub(electron, '_setProxy').resolves()
       sinon.stub(electron, '_setUserAgent')
+      sinon.stub(electron, '_getUserAgent')
     })
 
     it('sets menu.set whether or not its in headless mode', function () {
@@ -470,6 +471,108 @@ describe('lib/browsers/electron', () => {
         })
       })
     })
+
+    describe('setUserAgent with experimentalModifyObstructiveThirdPartyCode', () => {
+      let userAgent
+
+      beforeEach(function () {
+        userAgent = ''
+        electron._getUserAgent.callsFake(() => userAgent)
+      })
+
+      describe('disabled', function () {
+        it('does not attempt to replace the user agent', function () {
+          this.options.experimentalModifyObstructiveThirdPartyCode = false
+
+          return electron._launch(this.win, this.url, this.automation, this.options)
+          .then(() => {
+            expect(electron._setUserAgent).not.to.be.called
+          })
+        })
+      })
+
+      describe('enabled and attempts to replace obstructive user agent string containing:', function () {
+        beforeEach(function () {
+          this.options.experimentalModifyObstructiveThirdPartyCode = true
+        })
+
+        it('does not attempt to replace the user agent if the user passes in an explicit user agent', function () {
+          userAgent = 'barbaz'
+          this.options.experimentalModifyObstructiveThirdPartyCode = false
+          this.options.userAgent = 'foobar'
+
+          return electron._launch(this.win, this.url, this.automation, this.options)
+          .then(() => {
+            expect(electron._setUserAgent).to.be.calledWith(this.win.webContents, 'foobar')
+            expect(electron._setUserAgent).not.to.be.calledWith(this.win.webContents, 'barbaz')
+          })
+        })
+
+        it('versioned cypress', function () {
+          userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Cypress/10.0.3 Chrome/100.0.4896.75 Electron/18.0.4 Safari/537.36'
+
+          return electron._launch(this.win, this.url, this.automation, this.options)
+          .then(() => {
+            expect(electron._setUserAgent).to.have.been.calledWith(this.win.webContents, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.75 Safari/537.36')
+          })
+        })
+
+        it('development cypress', function () {
+          userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Cypress/0.0.0-development Chrome/100.0.4896.75 Electron/18.0.4 Safari/537.36'
+
+          return electron._launch(this.win, this.url, this.automation, this.options)
+          .then(() => {
+            expect(electron._setUserAgent).to.have.been.calledWith(this.win.webContents, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.75 Safari/537.36')
+          })
+        })
+
+        it('older Windows user agent', function () {
+          userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) electron/1.0.0 Chrome/53.0.2785.113 Electron/1.4.3 Safari/537.36'
+
+          return electron._launch(this.win, this.url, this.automation, this.options)
+          .then(() => {
+            expect(electron._setUserAgent).to.have.been.calledWith(this.win.webContents, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.113 Safari/537.36')
+          })
+        })
+
+        it('newer Windows user agent', function () {
+          userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Teams/1.5.00.4689 Chrome/85.0.4183.121 Electron/10.4.7 Safari/537.36'
+
+          return electron._launch(this.win, this.url, this.automation, this.options)
+          .then(() => {
+            expect(electron._setUserAgent).to.have.been.calledWith(this.win.webContents, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Teams/1.5.00.4689 Chrome/85.0.4183.121 Safari/537.36')
+          })
+        })
+
+        it('Linux user agent', function () {
+          userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Typora/0.9.93 Chrome/83.0.4103.119 Electron/9.0.5 Safari/E7FBAF'
+
+          return electron._launch(this.win, this.url, this.automation, this.options)
+          .then(() => {
+            expect(electron._setUserAgent).to.have.been.calledWith(this.win.webContents, 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Typora/0.9.93 Chrome/83.0.4103.119 Safari/E7FBAF')
+          })
+        })
+
+        it('older MacOS user agent', function () {
+          // this user agent containing Cypress was actually a common UA found on a website for Electron purposes...
+          userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Cypress/8.3.0 Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Electron/13.1.7 Safari/537.36'
+
+          return electron._launch(this.win, this.url, this.automation, this.options)
+          .then(() => {
+            expect(electron._setUserAgent).to.have.been.calledWith(this.win.webContents, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36')
+          })
+        })
+
+        it('newer MacOS user agent', function () {
+          userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.75 Safari/537.36'
+
+          return electron._launch(this.win, this.url, this.automation, this.options)
+          .then(() => {
+            expect(electron._setUserAgent).to.have.been.calledWith(this.win.webContents, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.75 Safari/537.36')
+          })
+        })
+      })
+    })
   })
 
   context('._render', () => {
diff --git a/packages/types/src/config.ts b/packages/types/src/config.ts
index edc1850f92bd..3ea6f4239777 100644
--- a/packages/types/src/config.ts
+++ b/packages/types/src/config.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ export interface FullConfig extends Partial<Cypress.RuntimeConfigOptions & Cypre
 // and are required when creating a project.
 export type ReceivedCypressOptions =
   Pick<Cypress.RuntimeConfigOptions, 'hosts' | 'projectName' | 'clientRoute' | 'devServerPublicPathRoute' | 'namespace' | 'report' | 'socketIoCookie' | 'configFile' | 'isTextTerminal' | 'isNewProject' | 'proxyUrl' | 'browsers' | 'browserUrl' | 'socketIoRoute' | 'arch' | 'platform' | 'spec' | 'specs' | 'browser' | 'version' | 'remote'>
-  & Pick<Cypress.ResolvedConfigOptions, 'chromeWebSecurity' | 'supportFolder' | 'experimentalSourceRewriting' | 'fixturesFolder' | 'reporter' | 'reporterOptions' | 'screenshotsFolder' | 'supportFile' | 'baseUrl' | 'viewportHeight' | 'viewportWidth' | 'port' | 'experimentalInteractiveRunEvents' | 'userAgent' | 'downloadsFolder' | 'env' | 'excludeSpecPattern' | 'specPattern' | 'experimentalSessionAndOrigin'> // TODO: Figure out how to type this better.
+  & Pick<Cypress.ResolvedConfigOptions, 'chromeWebSecurity' | 'supportFolder' | 'experimentalSourceRewriting' | 'fixturesFolder' | 'reporter' | 'reporterOptions' | 'screenshotsFolder' | 'supportFile' | 'baseUrl' | 'viewportHeight' | 'viewportWidth' | 'port' | 'experimentalInteractiveRunEvents' | 'userAgent' | 'downloadsFolder' | 'env' | 'excludeSpecPattern' | 'specPattern' | 'experimentalSessionAndOrigin' | 'experimentalModifyObstructiveThirdPartyCode'> // TODO: Figure out how to type this better.
 
 export interface SampleConfigFile{
   status: 'changes' | 'valid' | 'skipped' | 'error'