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
irs.gov recorded 12 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.
51 requests observed in one controlled visit.
Context
9 requests matched Brave Shields filter lists
9 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 6 request rows 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 12 fewer third-party requests and 6 fewer tracking-related service requests.
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
Context
Tracking companies the privacy policy does not appear to name
Google was sent requests during this visit, but the policy text matched none of the names this scan knows that company by.
Policies often disclose vendor categories rather than company names, so an unnamed vendor is a transparency gap worth reviewing, not automatically a violation.
Policy at https://www.irs.gov/{seg}/{seg}; 0 checkable statements matched; 0 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 3 of the 5 third-party hosts recorded here, so it cannot say who operates them. 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.
6 cookies total in this report.No third-party cookies observed.
Context
Interaction-monitoring signal involving a third-party script
Broad mouse, touch, click, visibility and keyboard listener coverage was registered during the visit through call chains that included a third-party script.
This is a behavioral instrumentation signal from listener registration, stack-attributed script origins, and known-vendor requests: it shows the page was instrumented to observe interaction, not that anything was transmitted. Stack attribution records the script origins present in the bounded registration call chain; a cross-site origin in that chain does not by itself establish that the cross-site script registered the listener, because first-party code can register its own listeners through a helper served from elsewhere. A different registrable domain is also not by itself a different operator: sites commonly serve their own scripts from a separate asset domain, so the card says third party only when the catalog or reviewed ownership attributes an origin to another organization. On scanners that run the active keystroke-capture probe, actual transmission is tested separately (a synthetic value is typed, never real input, and no typed values are collected); treat this card as a review prompt rather than proof.
16 interaction-listener registrations with https://*.digitalgov.gov/, https://static.addtoany.com/ and https://www.googletagmanager.com/ in the registration call chain
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: 6,527msBrave-list blocking: 5,780ms
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.
Cookie and storage count deltas include every observation. Name-level lists show only reviewed names; unreviewed names are not itemized because they can contain identifiers.
Visible cookie names only with Brave-list blocking
No visible cookie-name changes to show; privacy-filtered names are not itemized.
Visible cookie names only with No blocking
_ga.irs.govfirst-party
Visible storage keys only with Brave-list blocking
No visible storage-key changes to show; privacy-filtered keys are not itemized.
Visible storage keys only with No blocking
No visible storage-key changes to show; privacy-filtered keys are not itemized.
Entities only with Brave-list blocking
No entity changes observed.
Entities only with No blocking
Google2 domains6
Measurement limits
7 conditions affect how this evidence reads
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.
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.irs.gov/{seg}/{seg}) 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.
2026-08-10T07:11:33.733Z · 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
15
Third-party requests
15
No unique actor could be assigned to 15 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.
15 third-party requests: 0 attributed to a single recorded actor, 15 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.
Requests5115 third-party
Matched Shields lists9classification reported by this visit; no engine readback recorded
Third-party domains51 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
4
Google: analytics / tag management
script
www.google-analytics.com
service
2
Google: analytics / tag management
fetch
*.*.medallia.com
third-party
4
No catalog match
script, xhr
static.addtoany.com
third-party
3
No catalog match
script, document
*.digitalgov.gov
third-party
2
No catalog match
script
www.irs.gov
first-party
36
No catalog match
document, stylesheet, script, image, font
Request log
51 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
44ms
200
document
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/
B:R0002
89ms
200
stylesheet
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0003
90ms
200
stylesheet
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0004
90ms
200
stylesheet
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0005
91ms
200
script
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0006
91ms
200
script
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0007
92ms
200
script
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0008
92ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0009
93ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0010
151ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0011
151ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0012
178ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0013
181ms
200
script
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0014
182ms
200
script
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0015
183ms
200
script
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0016
183ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0017
184ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0018
185ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0019
185ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0020
185ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0021
185ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0022
186ms
200
script
static.addtoany.com
Not attributed
https://static.addtoany.com/…
B:R0023
186ms
200
script
www.googletagmanager.com
Not attributed
https://www.googletagmanager.com/…?id
B:R0024
186ms
200
stylesheet
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0025
224ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0026
226ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0027
227ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0028
227ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0029
227ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0030
227ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0031
228ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0032
229ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0033
229ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0034
229ms
200
font
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0035
230ms
200
font
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0036
230ms
200
font
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0037
232ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0038
375ms
200
document
static.addtoany.com
Not attributed
https://static.addtoany.com/…
B:R0039
426ms
200
script
static.addtoany.com
Not attributed
https://static.addtoany.com/…
B:R0040
427ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
B:R0041
504ms
200
script
www.googletagmanager.com
Not attributed
https://www.googletagmanager.com/…?id&…
B:R0042
505ms
200
script
*.*.medallia.com
Not attributed
https://*.*.medallia.com/…
B:R0043
505ms
200
script
*.digitalgov.gov
Not attributed
https://*.digitalgov.gov/…?…
B:R0044
635ms
204
fetch
www.google-analytics.com
Not attributed
https://www.google-analytics.com/…?v&tid&…&cid
B:R0045
643ms
200
script
*.digitalgov.gov
Not attributed
https://*.digitalgov.gov/…
B:R0046
644ms
200
script
www.googletagmanager.com
Not attributed
https://www.googletagmanager.com/…?id
B:R0047
644ms
200
script
www.googletagmanager.com
Not attributed
https://www.googletagmanager.com/…?id&…
B:R0048
765ms
204
fetch
www.google-analytics.com
Not attributed
https://www.google-analytics.com/…?v&tid&…&cid
B:R0049
813ms
200
script
*.*.medallia.com
Not attributed
https://*.*.medallia.com/…
B:R0050
840ms
200
xhr
*.*.medallia.com
Not attributed
https://*.*.medallia.com/…
B:R0051
861ms
200
xhr
*.*.medallia.com
Not attributed
https://*.*.medallia.com/api/…
Brave-list blocking — evidence
2026-08-10T07:11:40.270Z · 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
3
Third-party requests
3
No unique actor could be assigned to 3 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.
3 third-party requests: 0 attributed to a single recorded actor, 3 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.
Requests373 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
static.addtoany.com
third-party
3
No catalog match
script, document
www.irs.gov
first-party
34
No catalog match
document, stylesheet, script, image, font
Request log
37 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
46ms
200
document
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/
V:R0002
92ms
200
stylesheet
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0003
93ms
200
stylesheet
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0004
94ms
200
stylesheet
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0005
94ms
200
script
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0006
95ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0007
95ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0008
150ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0009
150ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0010
167ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0011
168ms
200
script
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0012
168ms
200
script
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0013
168ms
200
script
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0014
169ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0015
170ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0016
170ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0017
170ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0018
171ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0019
171ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0020
171ms
200
script
static.addtoany.com
Not attributed
https://static.addtoany.com/…
V:R0021
171ms
200
stylesheet
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0022
208ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0023
209ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0024
209ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0025
211ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0026
212ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0027
212ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0028
212ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0029
213ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0030
213ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0031
213ms
200
font
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0032
214ms
200
font
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0033
214ms
200
font
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0034
214ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
V:R0035
370ms
200
document
static.addtoany.com
Not attributed
https://static.addtoany.com/…
V:R0036
422ms
200
script
static.addtoany.com
Not attributed
https://static.addtoany.com/…
V:R0037
423ms
200
image
www.irs.gov
Not attributed
https://www.irs.gov/…
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. 17 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 14 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. On restart-safe deployments, an interrupted visit may be retried; attempts are never merged. Results describe these visits, not everything a site can do.