Curated public corpus · Site history

theguardian.com

theguardian.com recorded 561 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.

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This timeline contains reviewed reports published into the curated public corpus. A live rescan remains a standalone share report until a later corpus publication includes it.

Latest controlled visit

theguardian.com recorded 561 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.

Brave-list blocking comparison · Aug 17, 2026 · desktop

Third-party requests: 656
Third-party tracking-service requests: 253
Third-party cookies: 158

Comparable visits

Observed differences across comparable visits

Aug 17, 2026+14 third-party requests, +2 third-party tracking-service requests compared with Aug 10, 2026
Jul 21, 2026-4 third-party requests, +2 third-party tracking-service requests compared with Jul 21, 2026
Jul 6, 2026-7 third-party requests, +5 third-party tracking-service requests compared with Jun 25, 2026

This v1 history holds the route, scanner method, browser, device, conditions, catalog, Brave-list source and list count constant. It does not hold the filter-list snapshot date constant: a changed snapshot can support raw and catalogued-service differences, but never a Shields or detector delta, so a difference here is not evidence that blocking behaviour changed. Differences can still reflect site experiments, ad rotation, caching or bot detection.

Evidence timeline

10 reports

Third-party requests in successful, complete passive visits, oldest to newest. The full mixed evidence timeline remains below.

The trend line covers this site's 3 most recent reports from one measurement cohort. 6 other reports were measured under different methodology generations, different schema revisions and different producers, plus 2 others, so they are listed below rather than joined to one line.