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HEY Email Privacy Proxy

Name: HEY Email Privacy Proxy
Author: 37signals

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HEY email stops spy pixels and prevents user IP tracking by proxying all HTML email images, fonts, and external assets Operated by 37signals.

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Assessment

Page Preview

What is HEY Email Privacy Proxy?

HEY Email Privacy Proxy is a web crawler operated by 37signals. HEY email stops spy pixels and prevents user IP tracking by proxying all HTML email images, fonts, and external assets

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

HEY Email Privacy Proxy

Operator

37signals

Why it crawls your site

HEY Email Privacy Proxy crawls websites to generate link previews and thumbnails for shared URLs. It is operated by 37signals as part of their link preview infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow HEY Email Privacy Proxy

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for hey.com/imageproxy in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block HEY Email Privacy Proxy from crawling your entire site
User-agent: hey.com/imageproxy
Disallow: /

# Allow HEY Email Privacy Proxy full access
User-agent: hey.com/imageproxy
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows hey.com/imageproxy. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to 37signals's documentation.