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usatoday.com told Google you were here.

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Evidence receipt

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Report ID
20260625-2bfb0a20225479c5400ff86da338ad75
Site
www.usatoday.com
Latest visit
Schema
v1 schema · facts legacy-derived · descriptive report
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Baseline visit

Started
Run quality
cut short: the visit hit the scanner's request-recording cap, so its counts are truncated; derived from status and warnings
Scanner
playwright-chromium
Browser
149.0.7827.55
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
149.0.7827.55
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.

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

www.usatoday.com

https://www.usatoday.com/

cut short: the visit hit the scanner's request-recording cap, so its counts are truncated; derived from status and warningsJun 25, 2026, 8:22 PM UTC

What this actually means

usatoday.com told Google you were here.

17 tracking companies saw this visit across 149 third-party domains. It also looks like a session-replay vendor can record how you move and click and 1 browser-fingerprinting heuristic matched.

17tracking companies
970data requests sent off-site
182third-party cookies
1fingerprinting signal
Observed in two automated visits: evidence to check, not a verdict.

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