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• 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.

No blocking visit only

• Blocked a request that could not be verified as public: https://{label}.iqzone.com/{seg}
• Blocked a request that could not be verified as public: https://{label}.omnitagjs.com/{seg}/{seg}
• Blocked a request that could not be verified as public: https://{label}.{label}.adtarget.com.tr/{seg}
• Blocked a request that could not be verified as public: https://{label}.owneriq.net/{seg}
• The page did not reach network idle before the scan window ended.
• The in-page fingerprint observer could not read one or more frames, so fingerprint-like API calls and heuristics for this visit are incomplete.
• 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. Requests the page sent during and after this typing, including any unload beacons, are part of the recorded request log and counts.
• The scan stopped opening additional proxy requests after reaching its connection and target safety budget.
• The scan stopped recording or loading additional requests after 1000 requests.

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. 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://{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.