diff --git a/archivebox/config.py b/archivebox/config.py
index 0111ebcd..122c7e8d 100644
--- a/archivebox/config.py
+++ b/archivebox/config.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ SUBMIT_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG = os.getenv('SUBMIT_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG', 'True'
 CHECK_SSL_VALIDITY =     os.getenv('CHECK_SSL_VALIDITY',     'True'             ).lower() == 'true'
 RESOLUTION =             os.getenv('RESOLUTION',             '1440,2000'        )
 GIT_DOMAINS =            os.getenv('GIT_DOMAINS',            'github.com,bitbucket.org,gitlab.com').split(',')
-WGET_USER_AGENT =        os.getenv('WGET_USER_AGENT',        'ArchiveBox/{GIT_SHA} (+https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/) wget/{WGET_VERSION}')  # OR: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36
+WGET_USER_AGENT =        os.getenv('WGET_USER_AGENT',        'ArchiveBox/{GIT_SHA} (+https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/) wget/{WGET_VERSION}')
 CHROME_USER_DATA_DIR =   os.getenv('CHROME_USER_DATA_DIR',    None)
 
 CHROME_BINARY =          os.getenv('CHROME_BINARY',          None)  # change to google-chrome browser if using google-chrome
diff --git a/etc/ArchiveBox.conf.default b/etc/ArchiveBox.conf.default
index 5e5f73f5..fc07363e 100644
--- a/etc/ArchiveBox.conf.default
+++ b/etc/ArchiveBox.conf.default
@@ -1,33 +1,48 @@
 # Config file uses python syntax but can also be sourced as a .env
 
-ONLY_NEW=False
+### To disable specific archive methods, uncomment the line and change it to False
+# FETCH_WGET=True
+# FETCH_WGET_REQUISITES=True
+# FETCH_PDF=True
+# FETCH_SCREENSHOT=True
+# FETCH_DOM=True
+# FETCH_WARC=False
+# FETCH_MEDIA=False
+# FETCH_GIT=True
+# FETCH_FAVICON=True
+# SUBMIT_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG=True
 
-OUTPUT_PERMISSIONS=755
-MEDIA_TIMEOUT=3600
-TIMEOUT=60
+### To only download new links, and never attempt to update old ones, uncomment this line:
+# ONLY_NEW=True
 
-FETCH_WGET=True
+### To change your ouput folder permissions, uncomment and edit this line:
+# OUTPUT_PERMISSIONS=755
 
-FETCH_WGET=True
-FETCH_WGET_REQUISITES=True
-FETCH_PDF=True
-FETCH_SCREENSHOT=True
-FETCH_DOM=True
-FETCH_WARC=False
-FETCH_GIT=True
-FETCH_MEDIA=False
-FETCH_FAVICON=True
-SUBMIT_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG=True
+### To change how much time is allowed before marking a link as failed, uncomment and edit these lines:
+# MEDIA_TIMEOUT=3600
+# TIMEOUT=60
 
-CHECK_SSL_VALIDITY=True
-RESOLUTION="1440,2000"
-GIT_DOMAINS="github.com,bitbucket.org,gitlab.com"
-WGET_USER_AGENT="ArchiveBox/{GIT_SHA} (+https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/) wget/{WGET_VERSION}"
+### To ignore SSL certificate errors, uncomment this line:
+# CHECK_SSL_VALIDITY=False
 
+### To customize the screenshot resolution, uncomment and change this line:
+# RESOLUTION="1440,2000"
 
-CHROME_BINARY="chromium-browser"
-CHROME_USER_DATA_DIR=None
+### To customize which domains we attempted to `git clone`, uncomment and change this line:
+# GIT_DOMAINS="github.com,bitbucket.org,gitlab.com"
 
-WGET_BINARY="wget"
+### To lie and pretend to be Google Chrome when archiving, uncomment this line:
+# WGET_USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36"
+
+### To share a chrome data directory with your main browser, uncomment this line:
+# CHROME_USER_DATA_DIR="~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default"
+
+### To use a custom chrome binary, uncomment and set to binary name or full path:
+# CHROME_BINARY="chromium-browser"
+
+### To use a custom wget binary, uncomment and set to binary name or full path:
+# WGET_BINARY="wget"
+
+### To customize Text displayed in html output footer, uncomment and edit this line:
+# FOOTER_INFO="Content is hosted for personal archiving purposes only.  Contact server owner for any takedown requests."
 
-FOOTER_INFO="Content is hosted for personal archiving purposes only.  Contact server owner for any takedown requests."