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This report

• Brave-list blocking comparison runs should be collected under matched crawl conditions, and the blocking run is a simulation with Brave's engine and default lists in this scanner's browser, not a live Brave visit. Differences can still reflect timing, experiments, cache state, consent state, or bot detection.

Both visits

• Each visit in this report is one automated, headless Chromium visit from a fixed en-US / UTC profile, with no scrolling, clicking, or consent interaction. Sites can behave differently for real users, browsers, regions, accounts, or network locations.
• Counts are a lower bound: trackers that load only after interaction or consent, and any activity inside Web or Service Workers, are not observed. Service labels use a US-biased hand-curated catalog, so regional services may be under-labeled. Cookie and storage figures are an end-of-visit snapshot.
• Read the site's privacy policy (https://{label}.usatoday.com/privacy) and compared its text against this visit's observed behavior. Policy checks are an automated text match with the matched sentences quoted, not a legal reading.

No blocking visit only

• The page did not reach network idle before the scan window ended.
• The scan stopped recording or loading additional requests after 1000 requests.
• Blocked a request that could not be verified as public: https://{label}.iqzone.com/{seg}
• One or more requests were blocked or failed at connection time. This scan did not record whether that was a private-address guard block or an ordinary connection failure (a DNS or connect error), so no private-network claim is made.
• This scan typed a synthetic test value into 2 form fields (never submitting the form) to test whether typed input is captured and sent to third parties. The value is synthetic and is not stored.

Brave-list blocking visit only

• Brave Shields block simulation was enabled; matching requests were aborted before loading and are not included in request totals.
• This scan typed a synthetic test value into 1 form field (never submitting the form) to test whether typed input is captured and sent to third parties. The value is synthetic and is not stored.