medicare.gov

Comparable visits

Observed differences across comparable visits

• Jul 21, 2026no change in third-party requests, no change in catalogued tracking requests compared with Jul 21, 2026
• Jul 6, 2026+4 third-party requests, +3 catalogued tracking 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

6 reports

1. Jul 21, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktopmedicare.gov recorded 108 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.153 third-party · 26 catalogued tracking · schema 1
2. Jul 21, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktopmedicare.gov recorded 109 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.153 third-party · 26 catalogued tracking · schema 1
3. Jul 21, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktopmedicare.gov recorded 114 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.158 third-party · 29 catalogued tracking · schema 1
4. 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 · 29 catalogued tracking · schema 1
5. Jul 2, 2026 · consent comparison attempt (no banner clicked) · desktopmedicare.gov told Google and Microsoft you were here.162 third-party · 37 catalogued tracking · schema 1
6. 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 · 26 catalogued tracking · schema 1