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usatoday.com's retained request log includes catalogued Google domains.

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Integrity and provenance

Evidence receipt

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Report ID
20260721-e22a1d9c4d6641e6719e109798763594
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; the Worker instrumentation could not record every request, so the request evidence is incomplete; 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
cut short: the Worker instrumentation could not record every request, so the request evidence is incomplete; 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.

Approved use boundary: This report is investigative evidence that requires independent corroboration. It is not a standalone legal determination and not the sole exhibit in a legal proceeding.Recorded in this project's release manifest on .

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; the Worker instrumentation could not record every request, so the request evidence is incomplete; derived from status and warningsJul 21, 2026, 4:29 AM UTC

What this actually means

usatoday.com's retained request log includes catalogued Google domains.

Retained request rows include 15 distinct catalogued tracking-service entities; 15 of the retained service matches recorded responses across at least 140 retained cross-site domains. A catalog match identifies the service domain, not why the request occurred or what it carried.

≥15tracking-service entities retained
≥958cross-site requests
Snapshot incompletethird-party cookie records
Observed in two automated visits: evidence to check, not a verdict.

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