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: 6,209msBrave-list blocking: 5,520ms
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.
2026-08-07T04:32:40.933Z · 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
42ms
200
document
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/
B:R0002
77ms
200
stylesheet
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0003
78ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0004
78ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0005
104ms
200
stylesheet
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…
B:R0006
105ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0007
128ms
200
stylesheet
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…
B:R0008
150ms
200
script
www.googletagmanager.com
Not attributed
https://www.googletagmanager.com/…?id
B:R0009
182ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
B:R0010
182ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
B:R0011
183ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
B:R0012
183ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
B:R0013
183ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
B:R0014
188ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0015
189ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0016
189ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0017
190ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0018
191ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0019
191ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0020
273ms
200
xhr
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0021
274ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0022
275ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0023
275ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0024
346ms
200
xhr
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0025
349ms
200
xhr
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0026
354ms
200
xhr
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
B:R0027
1,033ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0028
1,034ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0029
1,051ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0030
1,055ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0031
1,060ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0032
1,066ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0033
1,075ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0034
1,079ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0035
1,091ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0036
1,098ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0037
1,102ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0038
1,110ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0039
1,113ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0040
1,120ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0041
1,123ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0042
1,126ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0043
1,129ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0044
1,135ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0045
1,138ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0046
1,142ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0047
1,145ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
B:R0048
1,553ms
n/a
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
Brave-list blocking — evidence
2026-08-07T04:32:47.151Z · 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
45ms
200
document
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/
V:R0002
77ms
200
stylesheet
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0003
78ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0004
78ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0005
100ms
200
stylesheet
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…
V:R0006
101ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0007
159ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
V:R0008
160ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
V:R0009
161ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
V:R0010
161ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
V:R0011
162ms
200
font
*.typekit.net
Not attributed
https://*.typekit.net/…?…&v
V:R0012
166ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0013
166ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0014
167ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0015
168ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0016
168ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0017
168ms
200
image
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0018
244ms
200
xhr
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0019
245ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0020
245ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0021
246ms
200
script
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0022
266ms
200
xhr
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0023
276ms
200
xhr
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0024
278ms
200
xhr
www.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://www.mit.edu/…
V:R0025
955ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0026
955ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0027
960ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0028
965ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0029
970ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0030
973ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0031
975ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0032
979ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0033
984ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0034
996ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0035
999ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0036
1,009ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0037
1,013ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0038
1,016ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0039
1,018ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0040
1,022ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0041
1,024ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0042
1,031ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0043
1,034ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0044
1,037ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0045
1,043ms
200
xhr
*.mit.edu
Not attributed
https://*.mit.edu/…
V:R0046
1,439ms
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
151.0.7922.34
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.