Site Behavior LabSee what a site does, not just what it says.

Controlled-visit evidence · 6 canonical sites

What health sites loaded

Descriptive results from one newest eligible passive visit per site, not a ranking, privacy grade, causal claim or representative sample of all health sites.

Newest included observation:

Observed medians

Median across this curated sample.

Medians summarize the included site-level observations. They do not describe every visit to these sites or the wider category.

Third-party requests
123
Third-party tracking-service requests
50
Third-party cookies
76 of 6 sites had complete cookie evidence
Separate Brave-list blocking pairsMedian observed difference: 93 fewer third-party requests with blocking on6 paired sites: 6 fewer, 0 unchanged, 0 more third-party requests with blocking on.

Included evidence

6 site-level observations

Sort any column. Open a profile for the currently retained, versioned report history.

6 sites

Every health site in this cohort, sortable by request, tracking-service and cookie counts, and by the date of its included visit.
clevelandclinic.orgclevelandclinic.org recorded 37 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.2 reports · Open latest evidence39105Aug 17, 2026Brave-list blocking comparison · desktop
cvs.comcvs.com recorded 110 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.3 reports · Open latest evidence128699Aug 17, 2026Brave-list blocking comparison · desktop
everydayhealth.comeverydayhealth.com recorded 306 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.3 reports · Open latest evidence32016271Aug 17, 2026Brave-list blocking comparison · desktop
healthline.comhealthline.com recorded 141 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.3 reports · Open latest evidence1844716Aug 17, 2026Brave-list blocking comparison · desktop
psychologytoday.compsychologytoday.com recorded 76 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.3 reports · Open latest evidence76443Aug 17, 2026Brave-list blocking comparison · desktop
walgreens.comwalgreens.com recorded 74 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.3 reports · Open latest evidence117533Aug 17, 2026Brave-list blocking comparison · desktop

How to read this page

Eligibility and limits

  • Each row is the newest successful, request-complete, uncapped passive lead visit for one canonical site.
  • Every row here was measured under one cohort (shields-request-context-v2-adblock-rust-0.13.2-request-method-v1-playwright-1.62.1+subject-validity-v2+detector-coverage-v2, schema v1, producer unrecorded, GPC not requested), which is this page's denominator. Another category can publish a different cohort, so these medians are comparable within this page and not against another category's.
    Full measurement identity

    shields-request-context-v2-adblock-rust-0.13.2-request-method-v1-playwright-1.62.1+subject-validity-v2+detector-coverage-v2, schema v1, producer unrecorded, GPC not requested, legacy catalog-metadata hash 5a5b8699d87581ae2f9b4a98d622df2b6c78a9259fad43d922b1cb6eda677526, ServiceRole taxonomy service-role-taxonomy-v1 digest dfccf71d4119c154e71bf7908dd2914557e8fc981951941594b16b00b712ed67, metric contract metric-contract-v1 digest 19bd5b62d1530480481080a1f208d2664e3769ac16300560a1f3df5894eb9680

  • Failed loads, incomplete recordings and accept/reject consent-interaction arms are excluded.
  • Third-party tracking-service request counts are lower bounds derived from retained request rows whose recorded host matched a reviewed service-catalog suffix and from the recorded ServiceRole taxonomy.
  • Category membership is editorial. The corpus is curated and is not a random or representative web sample.
  • A controlled visit is one observation. Ads, experiments, caching, location and bot detection can change what loads.
  • Blocking pairs simulate Brave's ad-block engine and default lists in the scanner; they are not live Brave-browser visits or counts of individually blocked requests.