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Published: 15 Sep 2026 (15 Sep 2026)
Medium: web
Language: English (the page says so itself)
Subject: Developer tools (read from the page)
First seen: 16 Oct 2026, 11:24 UTC

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91 hygiene score

Certificate issued by WE1, 57 days remaining
Cookie attributes no cookies set
Credentials and payment does not ask for either
No strict transport security
Served over HTTPS
Mail authentication sender policy and authentication published
No insecure resources
Redirects none
Security headers 2 of 5 set
Third-party origins 1
Transport security TLS 1.3

Observed 17 Oct 2026 by fetching the page as a browser would. This describes hygiene and transparency, not safety: a missing header does not make a site dangerous, and a complete set does not make it trustworthy.

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