SBL-CORR-2026-001: The historical input-probe disclosure overstates coverage. Unload-only transmissions were not reliably recorded. Focus and blur handlers could run, and per-field failures were not fully counted. These reports cannot establish absence of input transmission outside their retained observations.
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What this actually means
mit.edu recorded 2 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.
SBL-CORR-2026-001: The historical input-probe disclosure overstates coverage. Unload-only transmissions were not reliably recorded. Focus and blur handlers could run, and per-field failures were not fully counted. These reports cannot establish absence of input transmission outside their retained observations.
The scan observed signals a non-expert should not have to decode from raw request tables.
The cards below translate the evidence into plain language; severity reflects fixed reference thresholds, not measured population percentiles. The request log, domain table, and methodology remain below for verification.
48 requests observed in one controlled visit.
Context
2 requests matched Brave Shields filter lists
2 requests matched the default filter lists of Brave Shields, the ad and tracker blocker built into the Brave browser, while loading normally.
Computed with Brave's own ad-block engine and default filter lists in classification mode: matched requests were not blocked by the scanner and remain in this report's observed request counts. Matching shows what Shields would target on this visit's traffic; an actual Shields visit blocks these and also prevents their follow-on requests, so this number is neither a measured block count nor the total effect.
The hand-curated service catalog separately matched 1 request row in this visit.Show matched requests
Nothing observed
Lower values observed across comparable metrics in the Brave-list blocking attempt
With the scanner configured to apply Brave's ad-block engine and default Shields filter lists (a simulation in this scanner's browser, not a live Brave-browser visit; application was not verified), this paired visit showed 2 fewer third-party requests and 1 fewer tracking-related service request.
Services only seen in the unblocked visit: Google. The blocking visit's engine directly blocked 2 requests; the remaining difference may include follow-on requests that never started once their sources were blocked. A single paired comparison can also reflect run-to-run variance (ad rotation, caching, experiments), so treat this as an observed difference, not a measured blocking rate.
Signed per-metric differences between the two visits; nothing is summed across metrics.Show matched requests
Nothing observed
Privacy policy read; no checked statement contradicted
The policy's checkable statements did not contradict this visit's evidence (1 of 1 observed tracking company named in the policy).
Statements checked automatically: blanket no-cookie claims, third-party-cookie claims, and combined do-not-sell-or-share claims against advertising-pixel identifier fields. Global Privacy Control claims are never checked against request counts, which cannot show whether selling or sharing stopped.
Policy at https://www.mit.edu/privacy; 1 checkable statement matched; 1 of 1 observed tracking company named in the policy.
Context
Catalogued service domains recorded responses during this visit
Google appeared in the request log.
A catalog match identifies a maintainer-reviewed service/domain mapping; it does not establish why an individual request occurred, what it carried, or whether profiling happened. Functional catalog labels include analytics / tag management. This scan could not identify 1 of the 2 third-party hosts recorded here, so it cannot say who operates it. That is a limit of identity coverage, not evidence about the site.
The automated visit did not observe third-party cookies.
This does not prove the site never uses cookies; it means this visit did not observe third-party cookies.
0 cookies total in this report.No third-party cookies observed.
Nothing observed
No fingerprint-like API calls observed
The scan did not observe the instrumented high-entropy browser APIs.
This is an observation layer, not proof that fingerprinting is impossible.
0 API families recorded.
Brave Shields Comparison
No blocking → Brave-list blocking delta
No blocking: 6,267msBrave-list blocking: 5,693ms
Some deltas are not comparable across these two visits and are not shown.
Other detector and causal-path deltas (each visit's own evidence still renders below): v1 never recorded detector versions, so fingerprinting and pixel deltas cannot be proven to come from matching instrumentation.
The Shields-number delta (each visit's own evidence still renders below): The two visits measured different Shields quantities (filter-list matches vs engine-blocked requests), which must never share a delta.
Fingerprinting deltas (each visit's own evidence still renders below): At least one visit did not complete the fingerprint measurement, so no exact cross-visit delta is shown.
Ad-pixel deltas (each visit's own evidence still renders below): At least one visit did not complete the pixel measurement, so no exact cross-visit delta is shown.
Every signed change is Brave-list blocking minus No blocking. A positive or negative direction is descriptive, not a judgment that the result is better or worse.
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.
The two visits ran in randomized order; the "No blocking" visit ran first.
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 are not observed; Service Workers are blocked, and Web Worker or WebSocket traffic may be incomplete. 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, with storage keys read from the top frame only.
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. Requests the page sent during and after this typing, including any unload beacons, are part of the recorded request log and counts.
Read the site's privacy policy (https://www.mit.edu/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.
Brave-list blocking visit only
Brave Shields block simulation was enabled; matching requests were aborted before loading and are not included in request totals.
How to use this report
Read the findings and measurement limits first, then inspect the evidence for each recorded visit. Comparisons include both visits, even where a difference cannot be interpreted.
Keep this PDF with its evidence package: the source JSON, correction context, export receipt and SHA256SUMS. The package preserves source bytes and the correction context at export time. Hashes check file consistency; they do not establish independent measurement accuracy or a signed attestation.
2026-07-25T17:50:33.704Z · complete; derived from status and warnings
Retained observations from this visit. Missing measurements do not establish absence of activity.
Request attribution map
Which actor each third-party request is attributed to, from the initiator the browser reported. Attribution, not causation: an initiator may itself have been told what to fetch, and requests with no reported initiator are not distinguished from ones fetched from several. Asterisks mark subdomain labels hidden for privacy.
Attributed requests
0
Not attributable
8
Third-party requests
8
No unique actor could be assigned to 8 of these requests. That includes requests for which the browser reported no usable initiator, and repeated URLs seen with conflicting initiators. This report does not distinguish those causes, so they are counted together rather than drawn.
8 third-party requests: 0 attributed to a single recorded actor, 8 not attributable.
No retained third-party request has one recorded actor to draw. This is not evidence that no actor was involved: the visit may have reported no actor or several actors for the same request.
By the numbers
Recorded counts and evidence availability from this one visit. The findings above interpret them.
Requests488 third-party
Matched Shields lists2classification reported by this visit; no engine readback recorded
Third-party domains21 distinct catalogued service entity
Every domain this visit recorded, with its role, request count and catalog match.
Domain
Role
Requests
Catalog match
Resource types
www.googletagmanager.com
service
1
Google: analytics / tag management
script
*.typekit.net
third-party
7
No catalog match
stylesheet, font
*.mit.edu
first-party
22
No catalog match
xhr
www.mit.edu
first-party
18
No catalog match
document, stylesheet, image, script, xhr
Request log
48 recorded requests
In hosts and URLs, * and … mark details hidden for privacy.
Request references name this visit's retained JSON rows in order (B = baseline, V = variant, S = single). R0001 is the first request row.
Every request row this visit retained, with its time, status, resource type, domain and recorded provenance.
Ref
Time
Status
Type
Domain
Provenance
URL
B:R0001
48ms
200
document
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/
B:R0002
83ms
200
stylesheet
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0003
84ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0004
84ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0005
108ms
200
stylesheet
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…
B:R0006
114ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0007
314ms
200
stylesheet
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…
B:R0008
423ms
200
script
www.googletagmanager.com
Not attributed
https://www.googletagmanager.com/…?id
B:R0009
453ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
B:R0010
453ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
B:R0011
454ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
B:R0012
454ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
B:R0013
455ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
B:R0014
458ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0015
459ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0016
459ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0017
460ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0018
461ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0019
462ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0020
542ms
200
xhr
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0021
543ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0022
544ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0023
544ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0024
620ms
200
xhr
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0025
693ms
200
xhr
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0026
742ms
200
xhr
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0027
1,502ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0028
1,502ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0029
1,512ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0030
1,514ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0031
1,516ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0032
1,518ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0033
1,524ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0034
1,527ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0035
1,530ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0036
1,532ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0037
1,534ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0038
1,537ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0039
1,542ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0040
1,545ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0041
1,549ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0042
1,552ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0043
1,556ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0044
1,559ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0045
1,563ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0046
1,565ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0047
1,570ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0048
1,685ms
n/a
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
Brave-list blocking — evidence
2026-07-25T17:50:39.989Z · complete; derived from status and warnings
Retained observations from this visit. Missing measurements do not establish absence of activity.
Request attribution map
Which actor each third-party request is attributed to, from the initiator the browser reported. Attribution, not causation: an initiator may itself have been told what to fetch, and requests with no reported initiator are not distinguished from ones fetched from several. Asterisks mark subdomain labels hidden for privacy.
Attributed requests
0
Not attributable
6
Third-party requests
6
No unique actor could be assigned to 6 of these requests. That includes requests for which the browser reported no usable initiator, and repeated URLs seen with conflicting initiators. This report does not distinguish those causes, so they are counted together rather than drawn.
6 third-party requests: 0 attributed to a single recorded actor, 6 not attributable.
No retained third-party request has one recorded actor to draw. This is not evidence that no actor was involved: the visit may have reported no actor or several actors for the same request.
By the numbers
Recorded counts and evidence availability from this one visit. The findings above interpret them.
Requests466 third-party
Blocked by Brave lists2engine blocks reported by this visit; no engine readback recorded
Third-party domains10 distinct catalogued service entities
Every domain this visit recorded, with its role, request count and catalog match.
Domain
Role
Requests
Catalog match
Resource types
*.typekit.net
third-party
6
No catalog match
stylesheet, font
*.mit.edu
first-party
22
No catalog match
xhr
www.mit.edu
first-party
18
No catalog match
document, stylesheet, image, script, xhr
Request log
46 recorded requests
In hosts and URLs, * and … mark details hidden for privacy.
Request references name this visit's retained JSON rows in order (B = baseline, V = variant, S = single). R0001 is the first request row.
Every request row this visit retained, with its time, status, resource type, domain and recorded provenance.
Ref
Time
Status
Type
Domain
Provenance
URL
V:R0001
78ms
200
document
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/
V:R0002
110ms
200
stylesheet
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0003
110ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0004
111ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0005
132ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0006
142ms
200
stylesheet
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…
V:R0007
271ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
V:R0008
272ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
V:R0009
273ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
V:R0010
273ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
V:R0011
273ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
V:R0012
277ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0013
277ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0014
278ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0015
279ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0016
279ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0017
280ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0018
352ms
200
xhr
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0019
353ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0020
354ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0021
354ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0022
376ms
200
xhr
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0023
379ms
200
xhr
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0024
383ms
200
xhr
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0025
1,034ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0026
1,035ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0027
1,040ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0028
1,045ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0029
1,049ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0030
1,060ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0031
1,063ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0032
1,066ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0033
1,076ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0034
1,081ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0035
1,084ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0036
1,087ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0037
1,089ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0038
1,096ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0039
1,099ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0040
1,103ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0041
1,106ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0042
1,112ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0043
1,118ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0044
1,120ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0045
1,125ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0046
1,197ms
n/a
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
This versioned report is currently retained in the public corpus. Follow the currently retained site history, repeat the same public route when it is available, or request a transparent evidence correction.
Exact build and instrument digests were not recorded by this legacy schema.
Variant visit
Started
Run quality
complete; derived from status and warnings
Scanner
playwright-chromium
Browser
149.0.7827.55
Redaction
not recorded by this schema
Provenance
Exact build and instrument digests were not recorded by this legacy schema.
Recorded provenance is self-reported measurement metadata, not a cryptographic attestation. The public versioned report JSON contains the retained public evidence; see the methodology for interpretation and retention limits.
This report covers what the scanner measures, not everything a site can do. 16 browser surfaces are not instrumented at all (Every page except the one that was scanned; Anything that only loads after scrolling or interaction; Why a request happened, as a causal chain; and 13 others), 3 capabilities are declined by policy, and 3 are outside what any single visit can see. Their absence from this report is not evidence that they did not occur. Read the published coverage boundary.
Detector accuracy is unmeasured. No calibration study currently publishes a precision or recall for the detectors on this page, so a detector match here is a recorded observation, not a calibrated classification. How detector accuracy is measured.
Approved use boundary: This report is investigative evidence that requires independent corroboration. It is not a standalone legal determination and not the sole exhibit in a legal proceeding. Recorded in this project's release manifest on .
Reports record one automated visit per condition; visits may be incomplete. Results describe these visits, not everything a site can do.