Curated public corpus · Site history
theguardian.com
theguardian.com contacted catalogued Google and LinkedIn 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
theguardian.com contacted catalogued Google and LinkedIn domains during this visit.
GPC comparison · Aug 14, 2026 · desktop
- Third-party requests
- 626
- Third-party tracking-service requests
- 249
- Third-party cookies
- 165
Comparable visits
Observed differences across comparable visits
- Aug 10, 2026-40 third-party requests, -4 third-party tracking-service requests compared with Aug 7, 2026
- Jul 21, 2026-4 third-party requests, +2 third-party tracking-service requests compared with Jul 21, 2026
- Jul 6, 2026-7 third-party requests, +5 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.
- Aug 14, 2026 · GPC comparison · desktoptheguardian.com contacted catalogued Google and LinkedIn domains during this visit.626 third-party requests · 249 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 2.r2
- Aug 10, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktoptheguardian.com recorded 542 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.642 third-party requests · 251 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1
- Aug 7, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktoptheguardian.com recorded 588 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.682 third-party requests · 255 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1
- Jul 27, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktoptheguardian.com recorded 492 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.589 third-party requests · 210 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1
- Jul 21, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktoptheguardian.com recorded 60 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.161 third-party requests · 27 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1
- Jul 21, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktoptheguardian.com recorded 65 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.165 third-party requests · 25 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1
- Jul 6, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktoptheguardian.com recorded 61 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.162 third-party requests · 28 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1
- Jul 2, 2026 · consent comparison attempt (no control activated) · desktoptheguardian.com contacted catalogued Google domains during this visit.167 third-party requests · 26 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1
- Jun 25, 2026 · Brave-list blocking comparison · desktoptheguardian.com recorded 70 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.169 third-party requests · 23 third-party tracking-service requests · schema 1