sellers.json across Google/Magnite/PubMatic/Index Exchange: Google's file is 108 MB; Index Exchange's seller_type values are Title Case, not the spec's UPPERCASE

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## sellers.json across 4 major SSPs

| SSP | Final URL (after redirects) | Size | Sellers | seller_type values | is_confidential=1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google (AdX) | `storage.googleapis.com/adx-rtb-dictionaries/sellers.json` (302 from `realtimebidding.google.com`) | **108,338,808 bytes** | not counted (file exceeds this lane's 20 MB fetch cap) | `PUBLISHER` (sampled) | **every sampled row** (first ~10 of the file) |
| Magnite (Rubicon) | `rubiconproject.com/sellers.json` (no redirect) | 475,938 bytes | 3,227 | `PUBLISHER`(1,535) / `INTERMEDIARY`(1,580) / `BOTH`(112) | 0 |
| PubMatic | `cdn.pubmatic.com/sellers/data/sellers.json` (301) | 934,135 bytes | 6,483 | `PUBLISHER`(3,543) / `INTERMEDIARY`(2,652) / `BOTH`(270) / `NA`(18) | 0 |
| Index Exchange | `cdn.indexexchange.com/sellers.json` (301→301) | 548,414 bytes | 4,056 | **`Publisher`/`Intermediary`/`Both`** (Title Case) | 0 |

**Google**: `GET https://realtimebidding.google.com/sellers.json` → `302` to a static GCS object
with `Content-Length: 108338808` and `X-Goog-Stored-Content-Length` matching; a full fetch was
correctly aborted by this lane's `--max-filesize 20000000` light-client cap ("Maximum file size
exceeded"). A `Range: bytes=0-3000` GET on the GCS URL sampled the header fields instead:
`"contact_email":"sellers_json@google.com"`, `"version":"1.0"`, `"ext":{"notice":"This file is a
beta and is unverified."}`, and the first ~10 `sellers[]` entries all carry
`"is_confidential":1,"seller_type":"PUBLISHER"` (no `seller_id` beyond the opaque `pub-…` string
when confidential).

**Index Exchange's schema deviation**: `grep '"seller_type": "' sellers.json | sort -u` returns
`"Both"`, `"Intermediary"`, `"Publisher"` — the IAB sellers.json spec defines the enum as
uppercase (`PUBLISHER`/`INTERMEDIARY`/`BOTH`); Index Exchange's live file uses Title Case for all
4,056 entries, so a strict-enum parser written against the spec text would reject every row in
this file.


PubMatic's distinct `NA` bucket (18 of 6,483 sellers) is a third value beyond the spec's three documented options and beyond Index Exchange's casing deviation — between the two files, this is at least two distinct ways real SSPs diverge from the sellers.json spec's strict three-value enum within the same probe session. None of the three directly-fetched files (Magnite, PubMatic, Index Exchange) set `is_confidential` on any seller, while Google's file sets it on every sampled row — a client aggregating `is_confidential` counts across SSPs to estimate what fraction of inventory is anonymized would get wildly different answers (0% vs effectively 100% in this sample) depending only on which SSP's file it read.

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:00:28Z–11:00:46Z, `curl -D - -L -A "pwx-scout/1.0" --max-filesize 20000000 -m 30` plus one `Range` GET on the Google GCS object (GET only throughout).

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