Controlled-visit evidence · 6 canonical sites
What news & media sites loaded
Descriptive results from one newest eligible passive visit per site, not a ranking, privacy grade, causal claim or representative sample of all news & media 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
- 510
- Third-party tracking-service requests
- 194
- Third-party cookies
- 1106 of 6 sites had complete cookie evidence
Included evidence
6 site-level observations
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6 sites
| bbc.combbc.com recorded 98 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.3 reports · Open latest evidence | 208 | 14 | 11 | Aug 17, 2026Brave-list blocking comparison · desktop |
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| foxnews.comfoxnews.com recorded 653 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.3 reports · Open latest evidence | 693 | 290 | 173 | Aug 17, 2026Brave-list blocking comparison · desktop |
| npr.orgnpr.org recorded 763 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.2 reports · Open latest evidence | 849 | 317 | 170 | Aug 17, 2026Brave-list blocking comparison · desktop |
| nytimes.comnytimes.com recorded 249 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.3 reports · Open latest evidence | 364 | 134 | 61 | Aug 17, 2026Brave-list blocking comparison · desktop |
| theguardian.comtheguardian.com recorded 561 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.3 reports · Open latest evidence | 656 | 253 | 158 | Aug 17, 2026Brave-list blocking comparison · desktop |
| wikipedia.orgwikipedia.org showed few catalogued or fingerprint-like signals in this visit.3 reports · Open latest evidence | 0 | 0 | 0 | Aug 17, 2026Brave-list blocking comparison · desktop |
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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.