A valid signature means the report has not been altered since we issued it — not one timestamp, not one URL, not one state. It does not mean you have to take our word for what the report says. Every entry carries the exact URL and the moment we looked, so you can go check the page yourself.
Why REMOVAL_VERIFIED is hard to get. It requires at least two consecutive
clean scans, at least 14 days apart, with no inconclusive result in between. A single clean
scan only ever earns REMOVAL_UNCONFIRMED. If a scan is blocked or throttled we
record INCONCLUSIVE and the state drops to UNKNOWN — we do not
count a rate limit as a removal.
Our measurement method is published and versioned, our own code is tested against it, and we grade ourselves on the same public board as everyone else. If these numbers are wrong, they are wrong in a way you can demonstrate.