Site Behavior Lab

Baseline visit v2 schema (r2)

hinge.co

https://hinge.co/

Aug 14, 2026, 7:04 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

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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.

What this actually means

hinge.co contacted catalogued Google, Pinterest and TikTok, +2 more domains during this visit.

6 distinct catalogued tracking-service entities recorded responses across 25 cross-site domains. A catalog match identifies the service domain, not why the request occurred or what it carried.

6tracking-service entities
59cross-site requests
9third-party cookie records
Observed in two automated visits: evidence to check, not a verdict.

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. Where a measured distribution exists, severity ranks this visit against percentiles from the report's exact schema, methodology, tracker-catalog, ServiceRole-taxonomy, metric-contract, producer, and Global Privacy Control cohort, with each percentile card naming its metric-specific measured-site denominator (among 98 sites with a successful load across all cohorts; other methodologies, request-capped visits, and post-choice consent visits are excluded from this denominator, while failed or block-page attempts are outside that coverage), a curated set of popular, mostly commercial sites, not a random sample of the web, and otherwise uses fixed reference thresholds. The request log, domain table, and methodology remain below for verification.

119 requests observed in one controlled visit.

Worth checking

43 of 114 requests the engine evaluated matched Brave Shields filter lists

43 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 19 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.

Worth checking

Consent tooling and requests to tracking-service entities appeared before any choice

hinge.co sent a request to OneTrust, a consent management platform (the tooling that shows cookie banners), and the request log included 6 distinct catalogued tracking-related services before the scanner made any consent choice; 6 companies answered.

A request to the platform's loader proves the page attempted to fetch consent tooling; an observed response supports delivery, but neither fact proves a banner was visibly shown to this scanner. Banner display can vary by region and visit context. The scanner never clicks a banner in this mode, so this report records requests made before the scanner made a consent choice. It does not determine whether any request required consent or whether the site's behavior complied with applicable law. More tracking-service entities or requests may appear after "Accept" than this report captures, so the counts here are lower bounds for users who consent.

Consent platform detected via a request to cdn.cookielaw.org.

Context

Tracking companies the privacy policy does not appear to name

Pinterest, TikTok and Taboola 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, Meta and X.

Policy at https://hinge.co/privacy; 0 checkable statements matched; 3 of 6 observed tracking companies named in the policy.

Worth checking

Catalogued service domains recorded responses during this visit

Google, Pinterest and TikTok, plus 3 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 social / advertising pixel. This scan could not identify 11 of the 25 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: Sentry.

59 cross-site requests across 25 third-party hosts.At or above the median for third-party domains across the 54 sites measured for this metric. Elevated distinct tracking-service entities count (at or above the 6 reference threshold).Show third-party requests

Worth checking

Requests were dispatched to catalogued major-platform domains

This visit dispatched requests to catalogued domains for Google, Meta and TikTok, plus 2 others.

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

17 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

Context

Third-party cookies were present

9 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.

23 cookies total in this report.At or above the median for third-party cookies across the 54 sites measured for this metric.

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.

Raw evidence

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The findings above are built from the stored report. Load the request rows, domains, cookies, storage keys, browser signals, visit phases, charts and CSV export when you want to check them; the versioned report JSON is always available below without this interface.

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.

Integrity and provenance

Evidence receipt

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Report ID
20260814-62ae4ad9b3447de89d38f1130ba9a3f8
Site
hinge.co
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 .