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Security Researcher Detected: You might have ended up here because your site vulnerability scanner found something interesting. Hi! I'm a security engineer and I'm having a good time interacting with the people and bots that are interested in information security.

You will hopefully find this site is well-secured and I'm not interested in being hacked. I'm interested in learning about how people try to hack me, though.

What is this endpoint?

pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js

Google AdSense

What an attacker could do

This is the legitimate Google AdSense library hostname; scanners reference it to fingerprint ad integrations or test for content-security-policy gaps and malicious script injection vectors. A permissive CSP around such third-party scripts can let an attacker load arbitrary code under the ad domain allowance.

How to defend it

Load the AdSense script only over HTTPS from the official Google domain, scope your Content-Security-Policy to the exact required third-party origins, and use Subresource Integrity or trusted-types where feasible to limit script tampering.

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