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puente

4:51 pm on Jan 22, 2022 (gmt 0)

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Anyone seeing these bad URLs in their web logs?

I have loads of them.

This thread seems to suggest it's AdSense related.

[stackoverflow.com...]

not2easy

5:06 pm on Jan 22, 2022 (gmt 0)

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I have not seen them so I just ran a search on the term and it showed that URL you've included here as well as a lot of information that seems to relate it to apps, a Laravel package, an angular component and some other proprietary packages.

See if you find anything helpful at https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=SafeUrl&ia=web

No5needinput

5:07 pm on Jan 22, 2022 (gmt 0)

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Same here. Error logs are full of them. Seems to occur for directories only:

/home/AAA/public_html/BBB/CCC/type_error:SafeUrl

yaashul

6:23 pm on Jan 22, 2022 (gmt 0)

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As described in thread at stackoveflow, are you guys using non ssl pages and GDPR tool from adsense?

puente

6:55 pm on Jan 22, 2022 (gmt 0)

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My site's secure and also Cloudflare fronted, so end to end TLS. I did activate GDPR in AdSense a few days ago.

This is def caused by one of the AdSense or related JS libraries. Like someone updated it on Friday, didn't test it, and left in a hurry to start the weekend.

Chrome dev tools shows that with every page browse on my site, this nonsense URL is also called once via XHR POST which fails with 404.

No5needinput

6:57 pm on Jan 22, 2022 (gmt 0)

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Using SSL and Activated GDPR in Adsense a couple of weeks ago.

eriky

8:18 pm on Jan 22, 2022 (gmt 0)

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I noticed too, but I could not find a way to contact Adsense support or Funding choices support. They do their utmost best not to be contacted by webmasters, so I just blocked the requests for now and wait for them to find out. I get two of these requests for every visitor actually. I can imagine some already overloaded websites could seriously be affected by this.

If you're on Cloudflare, you can create a firewall rule to match URIs containing "type_error:SafeUrl" and set it to block.

waqar

10:38 pm on Jan 22, 2022 (gmt 0)



Hey Guys,

Thank you for helping, I just made the account to share that for us issue got fixed after we removed the funding choices code. I hope it helps others too.