diff --git a/app/src/androidTest/java/com/duckduckgo/app/browser/BrowserViewModelTest.kt b/app/src/androidTest/java/com/duckduckgo/app/browser/BrowserViewModelTest.kt
index 9bea9520c045..38b09730920f 100644
--- a/app/src/androidTest/java/com/duckduckgo/app/browser/BrowserViewModelTest.kt
+++ b/app/src/androidTest/java/com/duckduckgo/app/browser/BrowserViewModelTest.kt
@@ -484,4 +484,48 @@ class BrowserViewModelTest {
         assertEquals("", testee.viewState.value!!.findInPage.searchTerm)
     }
 
+    @Test
+    fun whenUserSelectsDesktopSiteThenDesktopModeStateUpdated() {
+        testee.desktopSiteModeToggled("http://example.com", desktopSiteRequested = true)
+        verify(mockCommandObserver, Mockito.atLeastOnce()).onChanged(commandCaptor.capture())
+        assertTrue(testee.viewState.value!!.isDesktopBrowsingMode)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun whenUserSelectsMobileSiteThenMobileModeStateUpdated() {
+        testee.desktopSiteModeToggled("http://example.com", desktopSiteRequested = false)
+        assertFalse(testee.viewState.value!!.isDesktopBrowsingMode)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun whenUserSelectsDesktopSiteWhenOnMobileSpecificSiteThenUrlModified() {
+        testee.desktopSiteModeToggled("http://m.example.com", desktopSiteRequested = true)
+        verify(mockCommandObserver, Mockito.atLeastOnce()).onChanged(commandCaptor.capture())
+        val ultimateCommand = commandCaptor.lastValue as Navigate
+        assertEquals("http://example.com", ultimateCommand.url)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun whenUserSelectsDesktopSiteWhenNotOnMobileSpecificSiteThenUrlNotModified() {
+        testee.desktopSiteModeToggled("http://example.com", desktopSiteRequested = true)
+        verify(mockCommandObserver, Mockito.atLeastOnce()).onChanged(commandCaptor.capture())
+        val ultimateCommand = commandCaptor.lastValue
+        assertTrue(ultimateCommand == Command.Refresh)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun whenUserSelectsMobileSiteWhenOnMobileSpecificSiteThenUrlNotModified() {
+        testee.desktopSiteModeToggled("http://m.example.com", desktopSiteRequested = false)
+        verify(mockCommandObserver, Mockito.atLeastOnce()).onChanged(commandCaptor.capture())
+        val ultimateCommand = commandCaptor.lastValue
+        assertTrue(ultimateCommand == Command.Refresh)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun whenUserSelectsMobileSiteWhenNotOnMobileSpecificSiteThenUrlNotModified() {
+        testee.desktopSiteModeToggled("http://example.com", desktopSiteRequested = false)
+        verify(mockCommandObserver, Mockito.atLeastOnce()).onChanged(commandCaptor.capture())
+        val ultimateCommand = commandCaptor.lastValue
+        assertTrue(ultimateCommand == Command.Refresh)
+    }
 }
diff --git a/app/src/androidTest/java/com/duckduckgo/app/browser/userAgent/UserAgentProviderTest.kt b/app/src/androidTest/java/com/duckduckgo/app/browser/userAgent/UserAgentProviderTest.kt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..32fd3d5c208d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/androidTest/java/com/duckduckgo/app/browser/userAgent/UserAgentProviderTest.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2018 DuckDuckGo
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.duckduckgo.app.browser.useragent
+
+import org.junit.Assert.assertTrue
+import org.junit.Test
+
+private const val CHROME_UA_MOBILE =
+        "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.1.0; Nexus 6P Build/OPM3.171019.014) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.137 Mobile Safari/537.36"
+
+// Some values will be dynamic based on OS/Architecture/Software versions, so use Regex to match around dynamic values
+private val CHROME_UA_DESKTOP_REGEX = Regex(
+        "Mozilla/5.0 \\(X11; Linux .*?\\) AppleWebKit\\/[.0-9]+ \\(KHTML, like Gecko\\) Chrome\\/[.0-9]+ Safari/[.0-9]+"
+)
+private val CHROME_UA_MOBILE_REGEX = Regex(
+        "Mozilla/5.0 \\(Linux; Android .*?\\) AppleWebKit\\/[.0-9]+ \\(KHTML, like Gecko\\) Chrome\\/[.0-9]+ Mobile Safari/[.0-9]+"
+)
+
+private val CHROME_UA_MOBILE_REGEX_MISSING_APPLE_WEBKIT_DETAILS = Regex(
+        "Mozilla/5.0 \\(Linux; Android .*?\\)"
+)
+
+class UserAgentProviderTest {
+
+    private lateinit var testee: UserAgentProvider
+
+    @Test
+    fun whenMobileUaRetrievedThenDeviceStrippedFromReturnedUa() {
+        testee = UserAgentProvider(CHROME_UA_MOBILE)
+        val actual = testee.getUserAgent(desktopSiteRequested = false)
+        assertTrue(CHROME_UA_MOBILE_REGEX.matches(actual))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun whenDesktopUaRetrievedThenDeviceStrippedFromReturnedUa() {
+        testee = UserAgentProvider(CHROME_UA_MOBILE)
+        val actual = testee.getUserAgent(desktopSiteRequested = true)
+        assertTrue(CHROME_UA_DESKTOP_REGEX.matches(actual))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun whenMissingAppleWebKitStringThenSimplyReturnsNothing() {
+        val missingAppleWebKitPart = "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.1.0; Nexus 6P Build/OPM3.171019.014) Chrome/64.0.3282.137 Mobile Safari/537.36"
+        testee = UserAgentProvider(missingAppleWebKitPart)
+        val actual = testee.getUserAgent(desktopSiteRequested = false)
+        assertTrue(CHROME_UA_MOBILE_REGEX_MISSING_APPLE_WEBKIT_DETAILS.matches(actual))
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/app/src/androidTest/java/com/duckduckgo/app/global/UriExtensionTest.kt b/app/src/androidTest/java/com/duckduckgo/app/global/UriExtensionTest.kt
index 89af8f1cfa35..5737fe3b9de7 100644
--- a/app/src/androidTest/java/com/duckduckgo/app/global/UriExtensionTest.kt
+++ b/app/src/androidTest/java/com/duckduckgo/app/global/UriExtensionTest.kt
@@ -102,4 +102,30 @@ class UriExtensionTest {
         assertFalse(Uri.parse("http://example.com").hasIpHost)
     }
 
+    @Test
+    fun whenUrlStartsMDotThenIdentifiedAsMobileSite() {
+        assertTrue(Uri.parse("https://m.example.com").isMobileSite)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun whenUrlSubdomainEndsWithMThenNotIdentifiedAsMobileSite() {
+        assertFalse(Uri.parse("https://adam.example.com").isMobileSite)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun whenUrlDoesNotStartWithMDotThenNotIdentifiedAsMobileSite() {
+        assertFalse(Uri.parse("https://example.com").isMobileSite)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun whenConvertingMobileSiteToDesktopSiteThenMobilePrefixStripped() {
+        val converted = Uri.parse("https://m.example.com").toDesktopUri()
+        assertEquals("https://example.com", converted.toString())
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun whenConvertingDesktopSiteToDesktopSiteThenUrlUnchanged() {
+        val converted = Uri.parse("https://example.com").toDesktopUri()
+        assertEquals("https://example.com", converted.toString())
+    }
 }
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/duckduckgo/app/browser/BrowserActivity.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/duckduckgo/app/browser/BrowserActivity.kt
index 9d041de6c8f5..ff31f2a846f2 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/duckduckgo/app/browser/BrowserActivity.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/duckduckgo/app/browser/BrowserActivity.kt
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ import com.duckduckgo.app.bookmarks.ui.BookmarksActivity
 import com.duckduckgo.app.browser.BrowserViewModel.Command
 import com.duckduckgo.app.browser.autoComplete.BrowserAutoCompleteSuggestionsAdapter
 import com.duckduckgo.app.browser.omnibar.OnBackKeyListener
+import com.duckduckgo.app.browser.useragent.UserAgentProvider
 import com.duckduckgo.app.global.DuckDuckGoActivity
 import com.duckduckgo.app.global.ViewModelFactory
 import com.duckduckgo.app.global.view.*
@@ -78,6 +79,8 @@ class BrowserActivity : DuckDuckGoActivity(), BookmarkDialogCreationListener, We
     @Inject
     lateinit var viewModelFactory: ViewModelFactory
 
+    lateinit var userAgentProvider: UserAgentProvider
+
     private lateinit var popupMenu: BrowserPopupMenu
 
     private lateinit var autoCompleteSuggestionsAdapter: BrowserAutoCompleteSuggestionsAdapter
@@ -129,6 +132,9 @@ class BrowserActivity : DuckDuckGoActivity(), BookmarkDialogCreationListener, We
             enableMenuOption(view.addBookmarksPopupMenuItem) { addBookmark() }
             enableMenuOption(view.settingsPopupMenuItem) { launchSettings() }
             enableMenuOption(view.findInPageMenuItem) { viewModel.userRequestingToFindInPage() }
+            enableMenuOption(view.requestDesktopSiteCheckMenuItem) {
+                viewModel.desktopSiteModeToggled(urlString = webView.url, desktopSiteRequested = view.requestDesktopSiteCheckMenuItem.isChecked)
+            }
         }
     }
 
@@ -222,6 +228,8 @@ class BrowserActivity : DuckDuckGoActivity(), BookmarkDialogCreationListener, We
             false -> webView.hide()
         }
 
+        toggleDesktopSiteMode(viewState.isDesktopBrowsingMode)
+
         when (viewState.isLoading) {
             true -> pageLoadingIndicator.show()
             false -> pageLoadingIndicator.hide()
@@ -401,10 +409,13 @@ class BrowserActivity : DuckDuckGoActivity(), BookmarkDialogCreationListener, We
     @SuppressLint("SetJavaScriptEnabled")
     private fun configureWebView() {
         webView = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.include_duckduckgo_browser_webview, webViewContainer, true).findViewById(R.id.browserWebView) as WebView
+        userAgentProvider = UserAgentProvider(webView.settings.userAgentString)
+
         webView.webViewClient = webViewClient
         webView.webChromeClient = webChromeClient
 
         webView.settings.apply {
+            userAgentString = userAgentProvider.getUserAgent()
             javaScriptEnabled = true
             domStorageEnabled = true
             loadWithOverviewMode = true
@@ -435,6 +446,10 @@ class BrowserActivity : DuckDuckGoActivity(), BookmarkDialogCreationListener, We
         viewModel.registerWebViewListener(webViewClient, webChromeClient)
     }
 
+    private fun toggleDesktopSiteMode(isDesktopSiteMode: Boolean) {
+        webView.settings.userAgentString = userAgentProvider.getUserAgent(isDesktopSiteMode)
+    }
+
     private fun downloadFileWithPermissionCheck() {
         if (hasWriteStoragePermission()) {
             downloadFile()
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/duckduckgo/app/browser/BrowserViewModel.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/duckduckgo/app/browser/BrowserViewModel.kt
index 1184b38f17de..0a53a3438e15 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/duckduckgo/app/browser/BrowserViewModel.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/duckduckgo/app/browser/BrowserViewModel.kt
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ import com.duckduckgo.app.browser.BrowserViewModel.Command.Navigate
 import com.duckduckgo.app.browser.LongPressHandler.RequiredAction
 import com.duckduckgo.app.browser.omnibar.OmnibarEntryConverter
 import com.duckduckgo.app.global.SingleLiveEvent
+import com.duckduckgo.app.global.db.AppConfigurationDao
+import com.duckduckgo.app.global.db.AppConfigurationEntity
+import com.duckduckgo.app.global.isMobileSite
+import com.duckduckgo.app.global.toDesktopUri
 import com.duckduckgo.app.privacymonitor.SiteMonitor
 import com.duckduckgo.app.privacymonitor.db.NetworkLeaderboardDao
 import com.duckduckgo.app.privacymonitor.db.NetworkLeaderboardEntry
@@ -44,8 +48,6 @@ import com.duckduckgo.app.privacymonitor.model.improvedGrade
 import com.duckduckgo.app.privacymonitor.store.PrivacyMonitorRepository
 import com.duckduckgo.app.privacymonitor.store.TermsOfServiceStore
 import com.duckduckgo.app.privacymonitor.ui.PrivacyDashboardActivity.Companion.RELOAD_RESULT_CODE
-import com.duckduckgo.app.global.db.AppConfigurationDao
-import com.duckduckgo.app.global.db.AppConfigurationEntity
 import com.duckduckgo.app.settings.db.SettingsDataStore
 import com.duckduckgo.app.statistics.api.StatisticsUpdater
 import com.duckduckgo.app.trackerdetection.model.TrackerNetworks
@@ -82,7 +84,9 @@ class BrowserViewModel(
             val canAddBookmarks: Boolean = false,
             val isFullScreen: Boolean = false,
             val autoComplete: AutoCompleteViewState = AutoCompleteViewState(),
-            val findInPage: FindInPage = FindInPage(canFindInPage = false)
+            val findInPage: FindInPage = FindInPage(canFindInPage = false),
+            val webViewScale: Int = 0,
+            val isDesktopBrowsingMode: Boolean = false
     )
 
     sealed class Command {
@@ -147,7 +151,6 @@ class BrowserViewModel(
         viewState.value = currentViewState.copy(autoComplete = searchResultViewState.copy(searchResults = AutoCompleteResult(result.query, results)))
     }
 
-
     @VisibleForTesting
     public override fun onCleared() {
         super.onCleared()
@@ -391,6 +394,23 @@ class BrowserViewModel(
         viewState.value = currentViewState().copy(findInPage = findInPage)
     }
 
+
+    fun desktopSiteModeToggled(urlString: String?, desktopSiteRequested: Boolean) {
+        viewState.value = currentViewState().copy(isDesktopBrowsingMode = desktopSiteRequested)
+
+        if (urlString == null) {
+            return
+        }
+        val url = Uri.parse(urlString)
+        if (desktopSiteRequested && url.isMobileSite) {
+            val desktopUrl = url.toDesktopUri()
+            Timber.i("Original URL $urlString - attempting $desktopUrl with desktop site UA string")
+            command.value = Navigate(desktopUrl.toString())
+        } else {
+            command.value = Command.Refresh
+        }
+    }
+
     data class FindInPage(
             val visible: Boolean = false,
             val showNumberMatches: Boolean = false,
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/duckduckgo/app/browser/userAgent/UserAgentProvider.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/duckduckgo/app/browser/userAgent/UserAgentProvider.kt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..34d3e5e864b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/duckduckgo/app/browser/userAgent/UserAgentProvider.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2018 DuckDuckGo
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.duckduckgo.app.browser.useragent
+
+import android.net.Uri
+import android.os.Build
+
+
+/**
+ * Example Default User Agent (From Chrome):
+ * Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.1.0; Nexus 6P Build/OPM3.171019.014) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.137 Mobile Safari/537.36
+ *
+ * Example Default Desktop User Agent (From Chrome):
+ * Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.137 Safari/537.36
+ */
+class UserAgentProvider constructor(private val defaultUserAgent: String) {
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a modified UA string which omits the user's device make and model
+     * If the user is requesting a desktop site, we add generic X11 Linux indicator, but include the real architecture
+     * If the user is requesting a mobile site, we add Linux Android indicator, and include the real Android OS version
+     *
+     * We include everything from the original UA string from AppleWebKit onwards (omitting if missing)
+     */
+    fun getUserAgent(desktopSiteRequested: Boolean = false) : String{
+
+        val platform = if(desktopSiteRequested) desktopUaPrefix() else mobileUaPrefix()
+        val userAgentStringSuffix = getWebKitVersionOnwards(desktopSiteRequested)
+
+        return "$MOZILLA_PREFIX ($platform)$userAgentStringSuffix"
+    }
+
+    private fun mobileUaPrefix() = "Linux; Android ${Build.VERSION.RELEASE}"
+
+    private fun desktopUaPrefix() = "X11; Linux ${System.getProperty("os.arch")}"
+
+    private fun getWebKitVersionOnwards(desktopSiteRequested: Boolean): String {
+        val matches = WEB_KIT_REGEX.find(defaultUserAgent) ?: return ""
+        var result = matches.groupValues[0]
+        if(desktopSiteRequested) {
+            result = result.replace(" Mobile ", " ")
+        }
+        return " $result"
+    }
+
+    companion object {
+        private val WEB_KIT_REGEX = Regex("AppleWebKit/.*")
+
+        private const val MOZILLA_PREFIX = "Mozilla/5.0"
+    }
+
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/duckduckgo/app/global/UriExtension.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/duckduckgo/app/global/UriExtension.kt
index 756d7856971b..fab50c14a83b 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/duckduckgo/app/global/UriExtension.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/duckduckgo/app/global/UriExtension.kt
@@ -45,3 +45,14 @@ val Uri.hasIpHost: Boolean
         val ipRegex = Regex("^((25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\\.){3}(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)$")
         return baseHost?.matches(ipRegex) ?: false
     }
+
+val Uri.isMobileSite: Boolean
+    get() = authority.startsWith("m.")
+
+fun Uri.toDesktopUri(): Uri {
+    return if (isMobileSite) {
+        Uri.parse(toString().replaceFirst("m.", ""))
+    } else {
+        this
+    }
+}
diff --git a/app/src/main/res/layout/popup_window_browser_menu.xml b/app/src/main/res/layout/popup_window_browser_menu.xml
index a71d7c7f17c9..a5f484c93c2c 100644
--- a/app/src/main/res/layout/popup_window_browser_menu.xml
+++ b/app/src/main/res/layout/popup_window_browser_menu.xml
@@ -95,6 +95,20 @@
                 android:enabled="false"
                 android:text="@string/find_in_page" />
 
+            <CheckBox
+                android:id="@+id/requestDesktopSiteCheckMenuItem"
+                style="@style/BrowserTextMenuItem"
+                android:button="@null"
+                android:paddingStart="30dp"
+                android:paddingEnd="0dp"
+                android:layout_marginEnd="20dp"
+                android:enabled="false"
+                android:drawablePadding="30dp"
+                android:drawableEnd="?android:attr/listChoiceIndicatorMultiple"
+                android:text="@string/requestDesktopSiteMenuTitle"
+                android:layout_width="match_parent"
+                android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
+
             <TextView
                 android:id="@+id/settingsPopupMenuItem"
                 style="@style/BrowserTextMenuItem"
diff --git a/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml b/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
index a4f75e686d89..71af9afdbf27 100644
--- a/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
+++ b/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
@@ -27,9 +27,10 @@
     <string name="downloadImage">Download Image</string>
     <string name="imageOptions">Image Options</string>
     <string name="permissionRequiredToDownload">Downloading requires storage permission</string>
-    <string name="find_in_page">Find in page</string>
+    <string name="requestDesktopSiteMenuTitle">Desktop Site</string>
 
     <!-- Find in page -->
+    <string name="find_in_page">Find in page</string>
     <string name="nextSearchTermDescription">Find next</string>
     <string name="previousSearchTermDescription">Find previous</string>
     <string name="closeFindInPageButtonDescription">Close find in page view</string>