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What this actually means
2 requests in this visit matched Brave Shields filter lists.
2 requests matched while loading normally. This run records no evaluated-request count, so no match ratio is stated. Matching identifies traffic the lists would target; it does not establish the purpose or payload of an individual request.
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.
60 requests observed in one controlled visit.
Context
2 requests matched Brave Shields filter lists
2 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 0 request rows in this visit.Show matched requests
Low signal
No change observed in the Brave-list blocking attempt
The blocking visit (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)) showed no change in the comparable metrics (third-party requests, third-party cookies and tracking-related service requests).
The blocking visit's engine directly blocked 2 requests; ad rotation, experiments, or caching between the two visits can offset or outweigh what blocking removed, which is how totals can hold steady or rise despite direct blocks. A single paired comparison can also reflect run-to-run variance (ad rotation, caching, experiments), so treat this as no observed difference for this pair of visits, not evidence that blocking removes nothing.
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
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.
Other third-party operators were identified outside the tracking-service catalog
Google were named by consent-platform signatures, reviewed ownership, or CNAME evidence without being classified as tracking services.
Operator identity and tracking classification are separate: naming an operator does not prove that a request was for tracking. This scan identified an operator for every one of the 2 third-party domains recorded here using catalog, consent-platform, reviewed-ownership, and CNAME evidence.
Requests were dispatched to major-platform domains the catalog does not carry
This visit dispatched requests to Google domains that the reviewed ownership map names, though the service catalog carries no entry for them.
Asset and font hosts reach this state often: the ownership map establishes who operates the domain, and nothing here establishes the request's purpose or payload. These domains are not counted as catalog-matched requests.
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.
3 cookies total in this report.No third-party cookies observed.
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: 2,207msBrave-list blocking: 2,046ms
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
No visible cookie-name changes to show; privacy-filtered names are not itemized.
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
No entity changes observed.
Measurement limits
6 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 "Brave-list 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.
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.
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.
2026-09-07T05:21:00.778Z · 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
2
Not attributable
0
Third-party requests
2
2 third-party requests: 2 attributed to a single recorded actor, 0 not attributable.
Horizontally scrollable visual map. A text list of every relationship drawn in it follows.
Select a relationship to see its detail and open the rows behind it.
Relationships shown in the request attribution map
1 request to *.gstatic.com, recorded as initiated by fonts.googleapis.com.
1 request to fonts.googleapis.com, recorded as initiated by my.gov.au.
By the numbers
Recorded counts and evidence availability from this one visit. The findings above interpret them.
Requests602 third-party
Matched Shields lists2classification reported by this visit; no engine readback recorded
Third-party domains20 distinct catalogued service entities
Every domain this visit recorded, with its role, request count and catalog match.
Domain
Role
Requests
Catalog match
Resource types
fonts.googleapis.com
third-party
1
No catalog match
stylesheet
*.gstatic.com
third-party
1
No catalog match
font
my.gov.au
first-party
55
No catalog match
document, stylesheet, script, image, fetch
*.my.gov.au
first-party
2
No catalog match
fetch, ping
login.my.gov.au
first-party
1
No catalog match
fetch
Request log
60 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
47ms
200
document
my.gov.au
Not attributed
https://my.gov.au/
B:R0002
84ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0003
85ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0004
85ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0005
86ms
200
stylesheet
fonts.googleapis.com
initiated by my.gov.au
https://fonts.googleapis.com/…?…
B:R0006
86ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0007
87ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0008
87ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0009
87ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0010
88ms
200
image
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0011
88ms
200
image
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0012
109ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0013
110ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0014
111ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0015
111ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0016
111ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0017
113ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0018
113ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0019
113ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0020
113ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0021
114ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0022
114ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0023
116ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0024
116ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0025
172ms
200
font
*.gstatic.com
initiated by fonts.googleapis.com
https://*.gstatic.com/…
B:R0026
205ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0027
205ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0028
222ms
200
image
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/en/…
B:R0029
222ms
200
image
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/en/about/help/…
B:R0030
223ms
200
image
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/en/…
B:R0031
224ms
200
image
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/en/about/…
B:R0032
270ms
200
fetch
*.my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://*.my.gov.au/…
B:R0033
284ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0034
284ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0035
373ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0036
373ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0037
374ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0038
392ms
200
image
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0039
392ms
200
image
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0040
404ms
200
fetch
login.my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://login.my.gov.au/…
B:R0041
420ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0042
422ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0043
422ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0044
423ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0045
429ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0046
430ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0047
430ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0048
1,165ms
204
ping
*.my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://*.my.gov.au/…
B:R0049
1,166ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0050
1,374ms
200
image
my.gov.au
Not attributed
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0051
1,374ms
200
image
my.gov.au
Not attributed
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0052
1,375ms
200
image
my.gov.au
Not attributed
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0053
1,375ms
200
image
my.gov.au
Not attributed
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0054
1,375ms
200
image
my.gov.au
Not attributed
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0055
1,376ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0056
1,376ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0057
1,377ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0058
1,405ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0059
1,406ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
B:R0060
1,407ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
Brave-list blocking — evidence
2026-09-07T05:20:58.725Z · 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
2
Not attributable
0
Third-party requests
2
2 third-party requests: 2 attributed to a single recorded actor, 0 not attributable.
Horizontally scrollable visual map. A text list of every relationship drawn in it follows.
Select a relationship to see its detail and open the rows behind it.
Relationships shown in the request attribution map
1 request to *.gstatic.com, recorded as initiated by fonts.googleapis.com.
1 request to fonts.googleapis.com, recorded as initiated by my.gov.au.
By the numbers
Recorded counts and evidence availability from this one visit. The findings above interpret them.
Requests582 third-party
Blocked by Brave lists2engine blocks reported by this visit; no engine readback recorded
Third-party domains20 distinct catalogued service entities
Every domain this visit recorded, with its role, request count and catalog match.
Domain
Role
Requests
Catalog match
Resource types
fonts.googleapis.com
third-party
1
No catalog match
stylesheet
*.gstatic.com
third-party
1
No catalog match
font
my.gov.au
first-party
55
No catalog match
document, stylesheet, script, image, fetch
login.my.gov.au
first-party
1
No catalog match
fetch
Request log
58 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
42ms
200
document
my.gov.au
Not attributed
https://my.gov.au/
V:R0002
84ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0003
85ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0004
85ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0005
85ms
200
stylesheet
fonts.googleapis.com
initiated by my.gov.au
https://fonts.googleapis.com/…?…
V:R0006
86ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0007
86ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0008
86ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0009
87ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0010
87ms
200
image
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0011
89ms
200
image
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0012
123ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0013
127ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0014
140ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0015
141ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0016
142ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0017
143ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0018
143ms
200
stylesheet
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0019
145ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0020
145ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0021
145ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0022
146ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0023
147ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0024
147ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0025
156ms
200
font
*.gstatic.com
initiated by fonts.googleapis.com
https://*.gstatic.com/…
V:R0026
206ms
200
image
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/en/…
V:R0027
207ms
200
image
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/en/about/help/…
V:R0028
207ms
200
image
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/en/…
V:R0029
208ms
200
image
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/en/about/…
V:R0030
241ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0031
242ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0032
321ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0033
321ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0034
391ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0035
392ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0036
392ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0037
408ms
200
image
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0038
408ms
200
image
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0039
419ms
200
fetch
login.my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://login.my.gov.au/…
V:R0040
449ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0041
450ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0042
450ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0043
450ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0044
454ms
200
script
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0045
454ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0046
455ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0047
472ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0048
1,391ms
200
image
my.gov.au
Not attributed
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0049
1,392ms
200
image
my.gov.au
Not attributed
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0050
1,392ms
200
image
my.gov.au
Not attributed
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0051
1,392ms
200
image
my.gov.au
Not attributed
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0052
1,393ms
200
image
my.gov.au
Not attributed
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0053
1,394ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0054
1,394ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0055
1,395ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0056
1,424ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0057
1,425ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
V:R0058
1,431ms
200
fetch
my.gov.au
initiated by my.gov.au
https://my.gov.au/…
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. 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 .
Reports record one automated visit per condition; visits may be incomplete. Results describe these visits, not everything a site can do.