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Controlled-visit evidence · 7 canonical sites

What open source & tech sites loaded

Descriptive results from one newest eligible passive visit per site, not a ranking, privacy grade, causal claim or representative sample of all open source & tech 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
0
Third-party tracking-service requests
0
Third-party cookies
07 of 7 sites had complete cookie evidence
Separate Brave-list blocking pairsMedian observed difference: no change in third-party requests7 paired sites: 3 fewer, 4 unchanged, 0 more third-party requests with blocking on.

Included evidence

7 site-level observations

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7 sites

Every open source & tech site in this cohort, sortable by request, tracking-service and cookie counts, and by the date of its included visit.
debian.orgdebian.org showed few catalogued or fingerprint-like signals in this visit.3 reports · Open latest evidence000Aug 17, 2026Brave-list blocking comparison · desktop
kernel.orgkernel.org showed few catalogued or fingerprint-like signals in this visit.3 reports · Open latest evidence000Aug 17, 2026Brave-list blocking comparison · desktop
mozilla.orgmozilla.org recorded 7 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.2 reports · Open latest evidence1170Aug 17, 2026Brave-list blocking comparison · desktop
nodejs.org1 request in this visit matched Brave Shields filter lists.3 reports · Open latest evidence000Aug 17, 2026Brave-list blocking comparison · desktop
postgresql.orgpostgresql.org recorded 5 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.3 reports · Open latest evidence550Aug 17, 2026Brave-list blocking comparison · desktop
python.orgpython.org recorded 1 fewer third-party request in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.3 reports · Open latest evidence700Aug 17, 2026Brave-list blocking comparison · desktop
rust-lang.orgrust-lang.org showed few catalogued or fingerprint-like signals in this visit.3 reports · Open latest evidence000Aug 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.