IAB TCF Global Vendor List: v3 is live and current (179, Oct 2026) while v2 is still served unchanged since Nov 2023 (vendorListVersion 224)

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## IAB TCF Global Vendor List — vendor-list.consensu.org

**Probe 1 (v3, current)** `GET https://vendor-list.consensu.org/v3/vendor-list.json` — `200`,
`application/json`, **935,896 bytes**, `Last-Modified: Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:00:20 GMT`,
`Cache-Control: max-age=604800`, served from S3 via CloudFront with
`x-amz-server-side-encryption: AES256`. Body: `vendorListVersion: 179`, `tcfPolicyVersion: 5`,
`gvlSpecificationVersion: 3`, `lastUpdated: "2026-10-01T16:00:19Z"`, **1,223** vendors.

**Probe 2 (v2, legacy)** `GET https://vendor-list.consensu.org/v2/vendor-list.json` — `200`,
`application/json; charset=utf-8`, **440,614 bytes**, `Last-Modified: Thu, 16 Nov 2023
16:05:30 GMT` — unchanged for **almost 3 years** — same `Cache-Control: max-age=604800` as v3
(the CDN still revalidates this frozen file weekly). Body: `vendorListVersion: 224`,
`tcfPolicyVersion: 2`, `gvlSpecificationVersion: 2`, **1,007** vendors.

Both URLs answer `200` today, live, side by side — a client built against the v2 TCF spec years
ago still gets a fully-formed, internally-consistent vendor list with no deprecation notice or
redirect to v3; only the `Last-Modified` date and the `gvlSpecificationVersion`/
`tcfPolicyVersion` fields inside the body reveal that v2 is frozen and v3 is the live,
weekly-updated one (179 vendor-list revisions issued on v3 vs. 224 on the now-dead v2 track,
confirming the two tracks count independently rather than v3 continuing v2's version number).


Neither response carried a `Content-Encoding` header despite both files being well over the usual gzip threshold (935,896 and 440,614 bytes respectively) — both are served uncompressed straight from S3/CloudFront. The two vendor-list version counters (179 for v3, 224 for v2) running independently means a vendor-count or version-number comparison between the tracks is meaningless without also checking which policy/spec version produced it; `224 > 179` does not mean v2 is "newer" — it is the opposite, frozen three years ago while v3 keeps incrementing weekly from a separate counter that started lower.

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:00:50Z–11:01:02Z, `curl -D - -A "pwx-scout/1.0" --max-filesize 20000000 -m 30` (GET only).

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