Baseline visit v2 schema (r2)

nick.com

https://www.nick.com/

Aug 14, 2026, 7:06 PM UTC

cut short: fingerprinting evidence was censored before completion — the in-page fingerprint observer did not finish (recorded loss count: 1); recorded by the scanner

Evidence quality

This report is built on an incomplete visit

Incomplete evidence: evidence was cut short before completion (fingerprinting evidence was censored before completion — the in-page fingerprint observer did not finish (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 nick.com: 102 recorded request rows.

Comparison Reportv2 schema (r2)

nick.com

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

nick.com contacted catalogued Google domains during this visit.

3 distinct catalogued tracking-service entities recorded responses across 14 cross-site domains. A catalog match identifies the service domain, not why the request occurred or what it carried.

3tracking-service entities
42cross-site requests
1third-party cookie record

Plain-Language Findings

What this visit means

Unfamiliar terms are defined in the glossary
playwright-chromium

Worth checking

Bottom line: this visit has review-worthy signals

The scan observed signals a non-expert should not have to decode from raw request tables. Some detector evidence was incomplete; each affected detector card states its own retained or unavailable scope, while completed request, cookie, and storage measurements keep their recorded exactness.

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.

102 requests observed in one controlled visit.

Worth checking

31 of 101 requests the engine evaluated matched Brave Shields filter lists

31 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 22 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.

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.

1 disqualifying condition named by the report's claim policy.

Context

Catalogued service domains recorded responses during this visit

Google, Tealium and Adobe 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 advertising, tag management / customer data and analytics / advertising. This scan could not identify 8 of the 14 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: New Relic.

42 cross-site requests across 14 third-party hosts.Modest distinct tracking-service entities count.Show third-party requests

Context

Requests were dispatched to catalogued major-platform domains

This visit dispatched requests to catalogued domains for Google.

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

4 requests to these platforms.Show catalog-matched requests

Nothing observed

No Google Analytics observed

This visit did not contact Google Analytics.

Neither Google Analytics nor its remarketing sync was observed in this visit.

No google-analytics.com or googletagmanager.com requests.Show catalog-matched requests

Context

Third-party cookies were present

1 third-party cookie 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.

8 cookies total in this report.Modest third-party cookies count.

Context

Incomplete evidence: No fingerprint-like API calls observed in retained evidence before collection stopped

The scan did not observe the instrumented high-entropy browser APIs.

This is an observation layer, not proof that fingerprinting is impossible. Evidence collection was cut short, so this covers only what was recorded before the cutoff.

Retained incomplete evidence includes 0 API event records; no exact API-family total is available.

GPC Comparison

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

GPC off: 2,782msGPC on: 3,387ms
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.
  • 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.
  • 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 fingerprint-heuristics detector's status differed between the two visits, so their numbers measure different things. The privacy-policy detector's status differed between the two visits, so their numbers measure different things. The baseline visit did not completely capture this evidence family, so its values are unavailable or incomplete rather than comparable totals. 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.
  • 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

3 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 in-page fingerprint observer could not read one or more frames, so fingerprint-like API calls and heuristics for this visit are 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
20260814-334622e2a46b6884b41e63cc47be5377
Site
nick.com
Latest visit
Schema
v2 schema (r2)
Verify recorded provenance

Baseline visit

Started
Run quality
cut short: fingerprinting evidence was censored before completion — the in-page fingerprint observer did not finish (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

Variant visit

Started
Run quality
cut short: fingerprinting evidence was censored before completion — the in-page fingerprint observer did not finish (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 .