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bbc.com

bbc.com contacted catalogued Google domains during this visit.

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

bbc.com contacted catalogued Google domains during this visit.

GPC comparison · Aug 14, 2026 · desktop

Third-party requests
128
Third-party tracking-service requests
1
Third-party cookies
3

Comparable visits

Observed differences across comparable visits

  • Aug 10, 2026-178 third-party requests, -92 third-party tracking-service requests compared with Aug 7, 2026
  • Jul 21, 2026+15 third-party requests, +8 third-party tracking-service requests compared with Jul 21, 2026
  • Jul 6, 2026-33 third-party requests, -6 third-party tracking-service requests compared with Jun 25, 2026

These successful, uncapped passive visits hold the route, scanner method, browser, device, conditions, catalog, Brave-list source and list count constant. The list snapshot may differ, so these are not Shields or detector changes. Differences can still reflect site experiments, ad rotation, caching or bot detection.

Evidence timeline

9 reports

No trend line: this site's newest measurement cohort holds only one report. 7 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.

  1. Aug 14, 2026 · GPC comparison · desktopbbc.com contacted catalogued Google domains during this visit.128 third-party requests · 1 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 2.r2
  2. Aug 10, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktopbbc.com recorded 148 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.251 third-party requests · 46 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1
  3. Aug 7, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktopbbc.com recorded 325 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.429 third-party requests · 138 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1
  4. Jul 27, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktopbbc.com recorded 101 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.182 third-party requests · 12 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1
  5. Jul 21, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktopbbc.com recorded 105 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.185 third-party requests · 28 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1
  6. Jul 21, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktopbbc.com recorded 91 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.170 third-party requests · 20 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1
  7. Jul 6, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktopbbc.com recorded 95 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.175 third-party requests · 22 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1
  8. Jul 2, 2026 · consent comparison attempt (no control activated) · desktopbbc.com contacted catalogued Google domains during this visit.200 third-party requests · 22 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1
  9. Jun 25, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktopbbc.com recorded 128 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.208 third-party requests · 28 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1