What steps should I take to protect my Google Maps API Key?

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Considering that key has to be included in the <script> tags of your HTML pages, to load the JS files/data from google’s servers, there is nothing you can do :

  • you must put it in your HTML files
  • every one can take a look at those.

Still, it doesn’t really matter : if anyone tries to use this key on another domain than yours, they will get a Javascript alert — which is not nice for ther users.

So :

  • There is nothing you can do ; this is the way it works
  • And there is not much you should worry about, I’d say.

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