medicare.gov

Comparable visits

Observed differences across comparable visits

• Aug 10, 2026-8 third-party requests, -9 third-party tracking-service requests compared with Aug 7, 2026
• Jul 6, 2026+4 third-party requests, +3 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. 5 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 · desktopmedicare.gov contacted catalogued Google and Microsoft domains during this visit.146 third-party requests · 43 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 2.r2
2. Aug 10, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktopmedicare.gov recorded 95 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.140 third-party requests · 37 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1
3. Aug 7, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktopmedicare.gov recorded 103 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.148 third-party requests · 46 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1
4. Jul 27, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktopmedicare.gov recorded 128 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.172 third-party requests · 43 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1
5. Jul 21, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktopmedicare.gov's retained request log includes catalogued Google and Microsoft domains.at least 153 third-party requests · at least 26 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1 · request evidence incomplete: this visit has incomplete request evidence from another bounded capture loss, so its request counts are lower bounds and it is excluded from the medians, leaderboard, and since-last-scan deltas.
6. Jul 21, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktopmedicare.gov's retained request log includes catalogued Google and Microsoft domains.at least 153 third-party requests · at least 26 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1 · request evidence incomplete: this visit has incomplete request evidence from another bounded capture loss, so its request counts are lower bounds and it is excluded from the medians, leaderboard, and since-last-scan deltas.
7. Jul 6, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktopmedicare.gov recorded 110 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.155 third-party requests · 29 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1
8. Jul 2, 2026 · consent comparison attempt (no control activated) · desktopmedicare.gov contacted catalogued Google and Microsoft domains during this visit.162 third-party requests · 37 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1
9. Jun 25, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktopmedicare.gov recorded 106 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.151 third-party requests · 26 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1