This page aggregates measured, corroborated evidence: donors' iPhones recorded apps contacting this domain, every claim below was reported by separate accepted donations and published under a human verdict (later rows for an approved app inherit its verdict). A contact is a measurement, not an accusation — it does not show what data was sent.
accountcapabilities-pa.googleapis.com
classified as first-party · 2
What our research panel found AI-drafted · human-reviewed
We ask several independent AI models the same question and publish their answers separately — cross-vendor agreement is evidence against fabrication, and disagreement is worth seeing. 3 of 3 models answered, overall confidence high. A human reviewed this domain's claims before anything here published.
Anthropic Claude — first-party
googleapis.com is Google's own API infrastructure, and the '-pa' subdomain pattern is a Google private API endpoint; since YouTube is published by Google, this is a first-party service call (apparently account capability/entitlement lookup) rather than a third-party tracker. The app's label already declares collecting User IDs and account details, so nothing here implies an undeclared data flow.
OpenAI — first-party
The domain is under googleapis.com and is plausibly a Google-operated API used by YouTube account functionality. The label declares extensive collection categories that could cover account-related data flows, so this contact is not clearly undisclosed.
Google Gemini — first-party
The domain accountcapabilities-pa.googleapis.com is an API endpoint operated by Google, the developer of YouTube, making this a first-party operational contact. The app declares extensive data collection including User IDs, so this functional account management endpoint does not indicate an undisclosed data flow.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube | — | 4 | 16 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
| Google Gemini | — | 4 | 4 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
| Gmail | — | 3 | 15 | 2026-07-30 |
| Google Maps | — | 3 | 12 | 2026-07-30 |
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