Baseline visit v2 schema (r2)

nytimes.com

https://www.nytimes.com/

Aug 14, 2026, 7:08 PM UTC

complete; recorded by the scanner

Public corrections ledger · SBL-CORR-2026-002

This report has a reviewed clarification

SBL-CORR-2026-002: The policy entity matcher did not recognize Amazon and Oracle under their catalog names. An unmentioned-entity result for Amazon Ads or Oracle Advertising is not reliable evidence that the policy omitted the company. Original policy text was not retained, so individual mention results cannot be reconstructed. Consult all clarification events for this report.

Read the public review record

Evidence quality

This report is built on an incomplete visit

Incomplete evidence: evidence was cut short before completion (request evidence was censored before completion — the producer recorded an additional collection loss (recorded loss count: 1)). Counts for the affected evidence are lower bounds; families that completed carry only their ordinary limits. The evidence receipt states the exact per-visit quality.

Scan report ready for nytimes.com: 693 recorded request rows.

Comparison Reportv2 schema (r2)

nytimes.com

https://www.nytimes.com/
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What this actually means

nytimes.com contacted catalogued Google and LinkedIn domains during this visit.

SBL-CORR-2026-002: The policy entity matcher did not recognize Amazon and Oracle under their catalog names. An unmentioned-entity result for Amazon Ads or Oracle Advertising is not reliable evidence that the policy omitted the company. Original policy text was not retained, so individual mention results cannot be reconstructed. Consult all clarification events for this report.

18tracking-service entities
383cross-site requests
75third-party cookie records

Plain-Language Findings

What this visit means

Unfamiliar terms are defined in the glossary
playwright-chromium

Review-worthy

Bottom line: this visit has review-worthy signals

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.

693 requests observed in one controlled visit.

Worth checking

185 of 616 requests the engine evaluated matched Brave Shields filter lists

185 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 173 request rows in this visit.Show matched requests

Context

This GPC comparison supports no comparable delta

The pair did not record the network egress region for both visits, and an unrecorded condition never counts as matching. and The variant visit did not completely capture this evidence family, so its values are unavailable or incomplete rather than comparable totals.

The raw request logs of both visits remain below for transparency, but the diff between them supports no claim about what the compared condition changed.

2 disqualifying conditions named by the report's claim policy.

Worth checking

1 first-party DNS alias matched tracking checks

1 resolved target matched Brave filter lists; those matches do not identify the operators.

The scanner followed DNS CNAME chains from first-party subdomains and checked resolved targets against the service catalog and Brave filter lists. These matches do not establish a request's purpose, profiling, or an intent to conceal tracking. A filter-list match alone is not a verified service identity or proof of tracking.

{label}.nytimes.com → {label}.datadome.co (Brave filter-list match; operator unverified)Open domain evidence

Context

Tracking companies the privacy policy does not appear to name

Magnite, Index Exchange and PubMatic, plus 8 others were sent requests during this visit, but the policy text matched none of the names this scan knows those companies by.

Policies often disclose vendor categories rather than company names, so an unnamed vendor is a transparency gap worth reviewing, not automatically a violation. Named in the policy: Google, Chartbeat and Comscore.

Policy at https://help.nytimes.com/{seg}/{seg}; 0 checkable statements matched; 3 of 14 observed tracking companies named in the policy; policy mentions of Amazon Ads are unknown because the historical alias matcher was incomplete.

Review-worthy

Catalogued service domains recorded responses during this visit

Google, Magnite and Amazon Ads, plus 15 others 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, advertising and advertising / supply-side platform. This scan could not identify 36 of the 73 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 role taxonomy assigns these additional services explicitly non-tracking operational, support, security, consent-management, or hosting roles: Datadog.

383 cross-site requests across 73 third-party hosts.High distinct tracking-service entities count (at or above the 12 reference threshold).Show third-party requests

Context

Requests were dispatched to catalogued major-platform domains

This visit dispatched requests to catalogued domains for Google and LinkedIn.

The domain matches identify services, not the requests' purpose, payload, or whether any profile linking occurred.

44 requests to these platforms.Show catalog-matched requests

Nothing observed

Google Analytics present, no remarketing signal

Google Analytics was observed, but no DoubleClick remarketing sync appeared in this visit.

Standard analytics collection was observed, without the stats.g.doubleclick.net advertising sync.

Google Analytics host observed; no stats.g.doubleclick.net request.Show catalog-matched requests

Review-worthy

Third-party cookies were present

75 third-party cookies showed up during the visit.

The scanner observed cookie metadata whose domain crossed the scanned site's registrable-domain boundary. This report does not retain cookie values or partition keys, so it does not establish whether a cookie was a persistent identifier or could recognize a visitor across sites.

107 cookies total in this report.High third-party cookies count (at or above the 12 reference threshold).

Context

Input-monitoring signal involving a third-party script

Listener coverage that could observe typing-related input events was registered 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.

214 interaction-listener registrations with https://accounts.google.com/, https://cdn.brandmetrics.com/ and https://pay.google.com/, plus 7 others in the registration call chain and 138 input-listener registrations with https://cdn.brandmetrics.com/, https://*.*.doubleclick.net/ and https://static.chartbeat.com/, plus 3 others in the registration call chain

Context

Fingerprint-like browser APIs were called

2 high-entropy API calls appeared in the instrumentation log.

These calls can be legitimate (charts, graphics, media), so the count is observational, not a severity score, and it excludes Web and Service Workers. Top calls: webgl.getParameter.UNMASKED_RENDERER_WEBGL and webgl.getParameter.UNMASKED_VENDOR_WEBGL.

2 API families recorded.

GPC Comparison

GPC off and GPC on: two visits, no comparable metric delta

GPC off: 12,988msGPC on: 12,595ms
No metric deltas are comparable across these two visits, so none are shown.
  • Request, cookie, and storage deltas (each visit's own evidence still renders below): The pair did not record the network egress region for both visits, and an unrecorded condition never counts as matching. The variant visit did not completely capture this evidence family, so its values are unavailable or incomplete rather than comparable totals.
  • Catalog-matched request and entity deltas (each visit's own evidence still renders below): The pair did not record the network egress region for both visits, and an unrecorded condition never counts as matching. The variant visit did not completely capture this evidence family, so its values are unavailable or incomplete rather than comparable totals.
  • Other detector and causal-path deltas (each visit's own evidence still renders below): The pair did not record the network egress region for both visits, and an unrecorded condition never counts as matching. The variant visit did not completely capture this evidence family, so its values are unavailable or incomplete rather than comparable totals.
  • The Shields-number delta (each visit's own evidence still renders below): The pair did not record the network egress region for both visits, and an unrecorded condition never counts as matching. The variant visit did not completely capture this evidence family, so its values are unavailable or incomplete rather than comparable totals.
  • 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.

Measurement limits

6 conditions affect how this evidence reads

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.
  • The page did not reach network idle before the scan window ended.
  • Resolved 1 first-party subdomain that is a CNAME alias for a third-party tracker (CNAME cloaking), which request-URL matching alone would miss.
  • Read the site's privacy policy (https://help.nytimes.com/{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.

GPC on visit only

  • The scan blocked or could not verify one or more Web Workers while applying the simulated GPC signal; request evidence may be incomplete.

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.

Report ID
20260814-1fc99c87bf75fc63a724167a5bab396d
Site
nytimes.com
Latest visit
Schema
v2 schema (r2)
Verify recorded provenance

Baseline visit

Started
Run quality
complete; recorded by the scanner
Scanner
playwright-chromium
Browser
151.0.7922.34
Redaction
version 4
Methodology
shields-request-context-v2-adblock-rust-0.13.2-request-method-v1-playwright-1.62.1+subject-validity-v2+detector-coverage-v2+phase-kernel-v2+boundary-state-v1+consent-r2-v4+resource-budget-v1+proxy-traffic-v1+service-worker-block-v1+detector-accountability-v1+service-role-taxonomy-v1
Detector registry
node-detectors-v4100de91713270067dff4f5ecebeea61d330982c7a5aa33395bae3dd604adedd2
Tracker catalog digest
e94970de235fc80254de8ed99b94316a252e52aa1c2e748c8fbfc3c093b908f4
Brave-list instrument
engine adblock-rust-0.13.20f52cc524a8999a1022279aca74003ece9720f267bc678430727b7312d43f0ac
Normalization
redaction-v4+allowlists-v3:269f631f04090ce582644ee3cf0e5c5b6bb425dc4929bc283607b808bc9322a9+public-string-policy-v3:6c78c05523e1f16c88264d0144af33587bd6dc11e04d337a6af2d58190639266+tldts@7.4.10+node-evidence-policy-v1+r2-http-status-compat-v1

Variant visit

Started
Run quality
cut short: request evidence was censored before completion — the producer recorded an additional collection loss (recorded loss count: 1); recorded by the scanner
Scanner
playwright-chromium
Browser
151.0.7922.34
Redaction
version 4
Methodology
shields-request-context-v2-adblock-rust-0.13.2-request-method-v1-playwright-1.62.1+subject-validity-v2+detector-coverage-v2+phase-kernel-v2+boundary-state-v1+consent-r2-v4+resource-budget-v1+proxy-traffic-v1+service-worker-block-v1+detector-accountability-v1+service-role-taxonomy-v1
Detector registry
node-detectors-v4100de91713270067dff4f5ecebeea61d330982c7a5aa33395bae3dd604adedd2
Tracker catalog digest
e94970de235fc80254de8ed99b94316a252e52aa1c2e748c8fbfc3c093b908f4
Brave-list instrument
engine adblock-rust-0.13.20f52cc524a8999a1022279aca74003ece9720f267bc678430727b7312d43f0ac
Normalization
redaction-v4+allowlists-v3:269f631f04090ce582644ee3cf0e5c5b6bb425dc4929bc283607b808bc9322a9+public-string-policy-v3:6c78c05523e1f16c88264d0144af33587bd6dc11e04d337a6af2d58190639266+tldts@7.4.10+node-evidence-policy-v1+r2-http-status-compat-v1

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 .