YahooMailProxy
recommended: allow
Operated by Yahoo
social media
Yahoo Mail Proxy is a content fetch proxy that retrieves the page content of URLs that are embedded within emails sent to Yahoo Mail users. Having the content displayed through the proxy improves the security for email users while reducing overall network usage.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
YahooMailProxy
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control YahooMailProxy:
Allow full access
User-agent: YahooMailProxy
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: YahooMailProxy
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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