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

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Comparison Reportv1 schema · facts legacy-derived · descriptive report

Brave-list blocking off/on comparison

https://creativecommons.org/
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What this actually means

creativecommons.org recorded 10 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.

The visit with no blocking made 42 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 10 fewer third-party requests. The blocker directly stopped 2 requests; the remaining difference may include follow-on requests that never started once their sources were blocked, plus run-to-run variance.

1tracking-service entity
10cross-site requests
1third-party cookie record
Observed in two automated visits: evidence to check, not a verdict.
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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.

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.

42 requests observed in one controlled visit.

Worth checking

11 requests matched Brave Shields filter lists

11 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 5 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 10 fewer third-party requests, 1 fewer third-party cookie and 5 fewer tracking-related service requests.

Services only seen in the unblocked visit: Google. The blocking visit's engine directly blocked 2 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

Context

Privacy policy read; it made no statement this scan can check

None of the statements this scan knows how to check appear in the policy text, so nothing was compared against this visit's evidence (1 of 1 observed tracking company named in the policy). That is a limit of the automated check, not a finding about the site either way.

Statements checked automatically: blanket no-cookie claims, third-party-cookie claims, and combined do-not-sell-or-share claims against advertising-pixel identifier fields. Global Privacy Control claims are never checked against request counts, which cannot show whether selling or sharing stopped.

Policy at https://creativecommons.org/privacy; 0 checkable statements matched; 1 of 1 observed tracking company named in the policy.

Context

Catalogued service domains recorded responses during this visit

Google 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 and advertising. This scan identified an operator for every one of the 5 third-party domains recorded here using catalog, consent-platform, reviewed-ownership, and CNAME evidence.

10 cross-site requests across 5 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.

5 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

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.

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

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: 2,412msBrave-list blocking: 2,468ms
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-11No blocking: 42 · Brave-list blocking: 31
Third-party requests-10No blocking: 10 · Brave-list blocking: 0
Third-party domains-5No blocking: 5 · Brave-list blocking: 0
Cookies-4No blocking: 4 · Brave-list blocking: 0
Third-party cookies-1No blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0
Storage keys-1No blocking: 2 · Brave-list blocking: 1
Catalog-matched requests-5No blocking: 5 · Brave-list blocking: 0

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

www.google.comunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 5 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-5
*.*.doubleclick.netGoogle · advertisingNo blocking: 2 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-2
creativecommons.orgfirst partyNo blocking: 32 · Brave-list blocking: 31Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
ad.doubleclick.netGoogle · advertisingNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
analytics.google.comGoogle · analytics / tag managementNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
www.googletagmanager.comGoogle · analytics / tag managementNo 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

www.google.comunlabeled · Show No blocking requests5
*.*.doubleclick.netGoogle · advertising · Show No blocking requests2
ad.doubleclick.netGoogle · advertising · Show No blocking requests1
analytics.google.comGoogle · analytics / tag management · Show No blocking requests1
www.googletagmanager.comGoogle · analytics / tag management · 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

test_cookie.doubleclick.netthird-party
_ga.creativecommons.orgfirst-party
_gcl_au.creativecommons.orgfirst-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

Google4 domains5

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 "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.
  • Read the site's privacy policy (https://creativecommons.org/privacy) 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.

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.

Correction context SHA-256: 1a6acc2ad1147c0255b04d14d2748f411159a9516f818959dd3054be53ed216c

Renderer revision: 3c18992e02534f33c825f7c2e51dd534d3ccab0d

No blocking — evidence

2026-09-07T05:16:53.753Z · 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
10
Not attributable
0
Third-party requests
10

10 third-party requests: 10 attributed to a single recorded actor, 0 not attributable.

Select a relationship to see its detail and open the rows behind it.

By the numbers

Recorded counts and evidence availability from this one visit. The findings above interpret them.
Requests4210 third-party
Matched Shields lists11classification reported by this visit; no engine readback recorded
Third-party domains51 distinct catalogued service entity
Cookies41 third-party
Storage keys22 keys privacy-filtered; values omitted
Fingerprint API calls00 API families
GPC signalConfigured offreadback not recorded
Duration2.4s5:16:53 AM UTC

Request composition & timeline

First-party requests 32
Other third-party requests 5
Catalog-matched third-party requests 5

42 requests were recorded from 42 ms to 590 ms. Open the request log for exact timing and request details.

0 ms590 ms

Domain evidence

6 recorded domains
DomainRoleRequestsCatalog matchResource types
*.*.doubleclick.netservice2Google: advertisingping, script
www.googletagmanager.comservice1Google: analytics / tag managementscript
analytics.google.comservice1Google: analytics / tag managementfetch
ad.doubleclick.netservice1Google: advertisingfetch
www.google.comthird-party5No catalog matchfetch, image
creativecommons.orgfirst-party32No catalog matchdocument, stylesheet, script, image, other, font

Request log

42 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.

RefTimeStatusTypeDomainProvenanceURL
B:R000142ms200documentcreativecommons.orgNot attributedhttps://creativecommons.org/
B:R000288ms200stylesheetcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R000388ms200scriptwww.googletagmanager.cominitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://www.googletagmanager.com/…?id
B:R000491ms200stylesheetcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R000592ms200scriptcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R000692ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R000792ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0008104ms200stylesheetcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0009104ms200stylesheetcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0010128ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0011130ms200stylesheetcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0012131ms200stylesheetcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0013186ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0014187ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0015187ms200scriptcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0016187ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0017188ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0018189ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0019189ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0020190ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0021195ms200othercreativecommons.orgNot attributedhttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0022266ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0023267ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0024267ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0025267ms200imagecreativecommons.orgNot attributedhttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0026268ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0027268ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0028269ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0029269ms200fontcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0030270ms200fontcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0031270ms200fontcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0032271ms200fontcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0033271ms200fontcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
B:R0034541ms200fetchwww.google.cominitiated by www.googletagmanager.comhttps://www.google.com/…?…&tid
B:R0035542ms200fetchwww.google.cominitiated by www.googletagmanager.comhttps://www.google.com/…?…&tid
B:R0036542ms204fetchanalytics.google.cominitiated by www.googletagmanager.comhttps://analytics.google.com/…?v&tid&…&cid
B:R0037543ms204ping*.*.doubleclick.netinitiated by www.googletagmanager.comhttps://*.*.doubleclick.net/…?v&…&tid&cid
B:R0038543ms200script*.*.doubleclick.netinitiated by www.googletagmanager.comhttps://*.*.doubleclick.net/…?…
B:R0039543ms200fetchwww.google.cominitiated by www.googletagmanager.comhttps://www.google.com/…?…
B:R0040543ms200fetchwww.google.cominitiated by www.googletagmanager.comhttps://www.google.com/…?…&tid
B:R0041543ms204fetchad.doubleclick.netinitiated by www.googletagmanager.comhttps://ad.doubleclick.net/…?…
B:R0042590ms200imagewww.google.cominitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://www.google.com/…?…&cid

Brave-list blocking — evidence

2026-09-07T05:16:56.179Z · 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
0
Not attributable
0
Third-party requests
0

No third-party requests were recorded, so attribution coverage is not applicable.

No retained third-party request has one recorded actor to draw. This is not evidence that no actor was involved: the visit may have reported no actor or several actors for the same request.

By the numbers

Recorded counts and evidence availability from this one visit. The findings above interpret them.
Requests310 third-party
Blocked by Brave lists2engine blocks reported by this visit; no engine readback recorded
Third-party domains00 distinct catalogued service entities
Cookies00 third-party
Storage keys11 key privacy-filtered; values omitted
Fingerprint API calls00 API families
GPC signalConfigured offreadback not recorded
Duration2.5s5:16:56 AM UTC

Request composition & timeline

First-party requests 31
Other third-party requests 0
Catalog-matched third-party requests 0

31 requests were recorded from 48 ms to 334 ms. Open the request log for exact timing and request details.

0 ms334 ms

Domain evidence

1 recorded domain
DomainRoleRequestsCatalog matchResource types
creativecommons.orgfirst-party31No catalog matchdocument, stylesheet, image, script, other, font

Request log

31 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.

RefTimeStatusTypeDomainProvenanceURL
V:R000148ms200documentcreativecommons.orgNot attributedhttps://creativecommons.org/
V:R0002123ms200stylesheetcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0003124ms200stylesheetcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0004124ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0005125ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0006147ms200stylesheetcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0007148ms200stylesheetcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0008197ms200stylesheetcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0009198ms200stylesheetcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0010199ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0011203ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0012261ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0013264ms200scriptcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0014265ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0015266ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0016273ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0017273ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0018275ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0019275ms200othercreativecommons.orgNot attributedhttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0020330ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0021331ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0022331ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0023331ms200imagecreativecommons.orgNot attributedhttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0024332ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0025332ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0026332ms200imagecreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0027333ms200fontcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0028333ms200fontcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0029333ms200fontcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0030334ms200fontcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…
V:R0031334ms200fontcreativecommons.orginitiated by creativecommons.orghttps://creativecommons.org/…

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
20260907-8d3a6fdbafbbcf0437a76ac091f8166f
Site
creativecommons.org
Latest visit
Schema
v1 schema · facts legacy-derived · descriptive report
Verify recorded provenance

Baseline 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.

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.