Baseline visit v1 schema · facts legacy-derived · descriptive report

www.foxnews.com

https://www.foxnews.com/

Sep 7, 2026, 4:48 AM UTC

cut short: the in-page fingerprint observer could not read every frame, so the fingerprinting evidence is incomplete; derived from status and warnings

Evidence quality

This report is built on an incomplete visit

Incomplete evidence: evidence was cut short before completion (the in-page fingerprint observer could not read every frame, so the fingerprinting evidence is incomplete). 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 www.foxnews.com: 343 recorded request rows.

Comparison Reportv1 schema · facts legacy-derived · descriptive report

Brave-list blocking off/on comparison

https://www.foxnews.com/ (opens in a new tab)
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What this actually means

foxnews.com recorded 149 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.

The visit with no blocking made 343 requests; the visit 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) recorded 149 fewer third-party requests. The blocker directly stopped 32 requests; the remaining difference may include follow-on requests that never started once their sources were blocked, plus run-to-run variance.

16tracking-service entities
185cross-site requests
38third-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. 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.

343 requests observed in one controlled visit.

Worth checking

113 requests matched Brave Shields filter lists

113 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 116 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 149 fewer third-party requests, 38 fewer third-party cookies and 110 fewer tracking-related service requests.

Services only seen in the unblocked visit: Taboola, Magnite and Nielsen, plus 11 others. The blocking visit's engine directly blocked 32 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

Worth checking

1 first-party DNS alias matched tracking checks

Recorded DNS aliases resolve to catalogued tracking-related services: Adobe.

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}.foxnews.com → {label}.{label}.{label}.{label}.{label}.omtrdc.net (Adobe; catalog match)Open domain evidence

Context

Tracking companies the privacy policy does not appear to name

Magnite, PubMatic and Chartbeat, plus 7 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: Taboola, Nielsen and Google, plus 2 others.

Policy at https://www.foxnews.com/privacy-policy; 0 checkable statements matched; 5 of 15 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

Taboola, Magnite and Amazon Ads, plus 13 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 advertising / recommendations, advertising / supply-side platform and advertising. This scan could not identify 26 of the 59 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 leaves at least one catalog category unclassified for these identified services and assigns none a tracking-related role, so they are not counted as tracking-related: Optimizely and Braze.

185 cross-site requests across 59 third-party hosts.Show third-party requests

Worth checking

Requests were dispatched to catalogued major-platform domains

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

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

11 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

38 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.

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

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.

Brave Shields Comparison

No blocking → Brave-list blocking delta

No blocking: 8,105msBrave-list blocking: 5,378ms
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.
Requests-152No blocking: 343 · Brave-list blocking: 191
Third-party requests-149No blocking: 185 · Brave-list blocking: 36
Third-party domains-43No blocking: 59 · Brave-list blocking: 16
Cookies-53No blocking: 69 · Brave-list blocking: 16
Third-party cookies-38No blocking: 38 · Brave-list blocking: 0
Storage keys-38No blocking: 57 · Brave-list blocking: 19
Catalog-matched requests-113No blocking: 116 · Brave-list blocking: 3

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.

Largest per-domain request-count changes

*.taboola.comTaboola · advertising / recommendationsNo blocking: 26 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-26
*.rubiconproject.comMagnite · advertising / supply-side platformNo blocking: 12 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-12
pixel.rubiconproject.comMagnite · advertising / supply-side platformNo blocking: 9 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-9
*.amazon-adsystem.comAmazon Ads · advertisingNo blocking: 7 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-7
*.imrworldwide.comNielsen · audience measurementNo blocking: 7 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-7
images.taboola.comTaboola · advertising / recommendationsNo blocking: 7 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-7
*.ketchcdn.comunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 6 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-6
*.*.doubleclick.netGoogle · advertisingNo blocking: 5 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-5
*.pubmatic.comPubMatic · advertising / supply-side platformNo blocking: 5 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-5
cdn.taboola.comTaboola · advertising / recommendationsNo blocking: 5 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-5
static.trueanthem.comunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 4 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-4
*.foxnews.comfirst partyNo blocking: 34 · Brave-list blocking: 31Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-3
*.*.atp.foxunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 4 · Brave-list blocking: 1Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-3
*.adsrvr.orgThe Trade Desk · advertising / demand-side platformNo blocking: 3 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-3
*.bing.comMicrosoft · advertising / analyticsNo blocking: 3 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-3
*.criteo.comCriteo · advertisingNo blocking: 3 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-3
*.demdex.netAdobe · analytics / advertisingNo blocking: 3 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-3
*.scorecardresearch.comComscore · audience measurementNo blocking: 3 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-3
*.*.bidr.iounlabeled third partyNo blocking: 2 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-2
*.analytics.yahoo.comunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 2 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-2
*.fontawesome.comunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 2 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-2
cdn.confiant-integrations.netunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 2 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-2
pix.pubunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 2 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-2
static.chartbeat.comChartbeat · audience analyticsNo blocking: 2 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-2
www.googletagmanager.comGoogle · analytics / tag managementNo blocking: 2 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-2
www.gstatic.comunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 8 · Brave-list blocking: 7Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.h-cdn.comunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 7 · Brave-list blocking: 6Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.gstatic.comunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 5 · Brave-list blocking: 4Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.*.amazon-adsystem.comAmazon Ads · advertisingNo blocking: 2 · Brave-list blocking: 1Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.*.braze.comBraze · customer engagementNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.*.imrworldwide.comNielsen · audience measurementNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.a-mo.netunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.adnxs.comunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.ads.linkedin.comLinkedIn · social / advertising pixelNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.appboycdn.comunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.cdn.optimizely.comOptimizely · experimentationNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.chartbeat.comChartbeat · audience analyticsNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.chartbeat.netChartbeat · audience analyticsNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.connatix.comunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.ipredictive.comunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.knotch.comunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.knotch.itunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.lijit.comSovrn · advertising / publisher monetizationNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.optimizely.comOptimizely · experimentationNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.rlcdn.comLiveRamp · identity / advertisingNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
cdn.ketchjs.comunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
static.criteo.netCriteo · advertisingNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
static.qovani.comunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
www.knotch-cdn.comunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1

Domains only with Brave-list blocking

No domain changes observed.

Domains only with No blocking

*.taboola.comTaboola · advertising / recommendations · Show No blocking requests26
*.rubiconproject.comMagnite · advertising / supply-side platform · Show No blocking requests12
pixel.rubiconproject.comMagnite · advertising / supply-side platform · Show No blocking requests9
*.amazon-adsystem.comAmazon Ads · advertising · Show No blocking requests7
*.imrworldwide.comNielsen · audience measurement · Show No blocking requests7
images.taboola.comTaboola · advertising / recommendations · Show No blocking requests7
*.ketchcdn.comunlabeled · Show No blocking requests6
*.*.doubleclick.netGoogle · advertising · Show No blocking requests5
*.pubmatic.comPubMatic · advertising / supply-side platform · Show No blocking requests5
cdn.taboola.comTaboola · advertising / recommendations · Show No blocking requests5
static.trueanthem.comunlabeled · Show No blocking requests4
*.adsrvr.orgThe Trade Desk · advertising / demand-side platform · Show No blocking requests3
*.bing.comMicrosoft · advertising / analytics · Show No blocking requests3
*.criteo.comCriteo · advertising · Show No blocking requests3
*.demdex.netAdobe · analytics / advertising · Show No blocking requests3
*.scorecardresearch.comComscore · audience measurement · Show No blocking requests3
*.*.bidr.iounlabeled · Show No blocking requests2
*.analytics.yahoo.comunlabeled · Show No blocking requests2
*.fontawesome.comunlabeled · Show No blocking requests2
cdn.confiant-integrations.netunlabeled · Show No blocking requests2
pix.pubunlabeled · Show No blocking requests2
static.chartbeat.comChartbeat · audience analytics · Show No blocking requests2
www.googletagmanager.comGoogle · analytics / tag management · Show No blocking requests2
*.*.braze.comBraze · customer engagement · Show No blocking requests1
*.*.imrworldwide.comNielsen · audience measurement · Show No blocking requests1
*.a-mo.netunlabeled · Show No blocking requests1
*.adnxs.comunlabeled · Show No blocking requests1
*.ads.linkedin.comLinkedIn · social / advertising pixel · Show No blocking requests1
*.appboycdn.comunlabeled · Show No blocking requests1
*.cdn.optimizely.comOptimizely · experimentation · Show No blocking requests1
*.chartbeat.comChartbeat · audience analytics · Show No blocking requests1
*.chartbeat.netChartbeat · audience analytics · Show No blocking requests1
*.connatix.comunlabeled · Show No blocking requests1
*.ipredictive.comunlabeled · Show No blocking requests1
*.knotch.comunlabeled · Show No blocking requests1
*.knotch.itunlabeled · Show No blocking requests1
*.lijit.comSovrn · advertising / publisher monetization · Show No blocking requests1
*.optimizely.comOptimizely · experimentation · Show No blocking requests1
*.rlcdn.comLiveRamp · identity / advertising · Show No blocking requests1
cdn.ketchjs.comunlabeled · Show No blocking requests1
static.criteo.netCriteo · advertising · Show No blocking requests1
static.qovani.comunlabeled · Show No blocking requests1
www.knotch-cdn.comunlabeled · Show No blocking requests1

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

MUID.bing.comthird-party
test_cookie.doubleclick.netthird-party
__cf_bm.linkedin.comthird-party
lidc.linkedin.comthird-party
receive-cookie-deprecation.rubiconproject.comthird-party
_uetsid.foxnews.comfirst-party
_uetvid.foxnews.comfirst-party
usprivacy.foxnews.comfirst-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

Taboola3 domains38
Magnite2 domains21
Nielsen2 domains8
Google2 domains7
PubMatic1 domain5
Chartbeat3 domains4
Criteo2 domains4
Adobe1 domain3
Comscore1 domain3
Microsoft1 domain3
The Trade Desk1 domain3
Braze1 domain1
LinkedIn1 domain1
LiveRamp1 domain1
Sovrn1 domain1

Measurement limits

8 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.
  • The in-page fingerprint observer could not read one or more frames, so fingerprint-like API calls and heuristics for this visit are incomplete.
  • Read the site's privacy policy (https://www.foxnews.com/privacy-policy) 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.

No blocking visit only

  • Resolved 1 first-party subdomain that is a CNAME alias for a third-party tracker (CNAME cloaking), which request-URL matching alone would miss.

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 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
20260907-25d09db1702c5c8d48a211b23d76372c
Site
www.foxnews.com
Latest visit
Schema
v1 schema · facts legacy-derived · descriptive report
Verify recorded provenance

Baseline visit

Started
Run quality
cut short: the in-page fingerprint observer could not read every frame, so the fingerprinting evidence is incomplete; 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.

Variant visit

Started
Run quality
cut short: the in-page fingerprint observer could not read every frame, so the fingerprinting evidence is incomplete; 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. 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 .