Use Tag Manager with a Content Security Policy

Content Security Policy (CSP) is a widely supported Web security standard intended to prevent certain types of injection-based attacks by giving developers control over the resources loaded by their applications. Use this guide to understand how to deploy Google Tag Manager on sites that use a CSP.

Enable the container tag to use CSP

To use Google Tag Manager on a page with a CSP, the CSP must allow for the execution of your Tag Manager container code. This code is built as inline JavaScript code that injects the gtm.js script. There are several ways to do this, such as the use of a nonce or a hash. The recommended method is to use a nonce, which should be an unguessable, random value that the server generates individually for each response. Supply the nonce value in the Content-Security- Policy script-src directive:

Content-Security-Policy:
script-src 'nonce-{SERVER-GENERATED-NONCE}';
img-src www.googletagmanager.com;
connect-src www.googletagmanager.com

Then use the nonce-aware version of the inline Tag Manager container code. Set the nonce attribute on the inline script element to this same value:

<!-- Google Tag Manager -->
<script nonce='{SERVER-GENERATED-NONCE}'>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':
new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],
j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src=
'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;var n=d.querySelector('[nonce]');
n&&j.setAttribute('nonce',n.nonce||n.getAttribute('nonce'));f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);
})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-XXXXXX');</script>
<!-- End Google Tag Manager -->

Tag Manager will then propagate the nonce to any scripts that it adds to the page.

There are other approaches to enabling the execution of an inline script, such as supplying the hash of the inline script in the CSP.

If the recommended nonce or hash approaches are not feasible, it is possible to enable the Tag Manager inline script by adding the 'unsafe-inline' directive to the CSP's script-src section.

The following directives are needed in the CSP to use this approach:

Custom JavaScript Variables

Due to how Custom JavaScript variables are implemented, they will evaluate to undefined in the presence of a CSP unless the 'unsafe-eval' directive is given in the script-src section of the CSP.

Preview Mode

In order to use Google Tag Manager's Preview Mode, the CSP must include the following directives:

Google Analytics 4 (Google Analytics)

To use the Google Analytics 4 (Google Analytics) tag, the CSP must include the following directives:

For Google Analytics 4 (Google Analytics) deployments using Google Signals, the CSP must include the following directives:

Google Ads

To use a Google Ads Conversion, Remarketing, or Conversion Linker tag, the CSP must include the following directives:

Google Ads User Data Beacon

To use the Google Ads user data beacons when running in secure contexts, the CSP must include the following directives:

The Google ads user data beacon does not run in insecure contexts, so CSP configuration in those cases is not applicable.

Floodlight

Floodlight users can enable CSPs using the following configurations. Replace <FLOODLIGHT-CONFIG-ID> values with either a specific Floodlight advertiser ID, or * to allow any advertiser ID:

For all users:

For "custom scripts" beacons:

For image tags: