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.
addons-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
addons-pa.googleapis.com is a Google-operated googleapis.com API endpoint (the '-pa' private API backends), which is first-party infrastructure for Gmail, a Google app; it is most consistent with the Gmail add-ons service rather than an advertising or third-party analytics service. The app's declared collection (emails, user IDs, app interactions, files and docs, etc.) already covers a first-party service call of this kind, so nothing here indicates an undisclosed data flow.
OpenAI — first-party
The domain is under googleapis.com and is consistent with a Google service endpoint used by Gmail. Gmail's label declares broad collection categories that could cover data involved in such a contact, so undisclosed collection cannot be established from the provided information.
Google Gemini — first-party
The domain addons-pa.googleapis.com is an API endpoint operated by Google for Google Workspace add-ons, making this a first-party domain contact for the Gmail app.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gmail | — | 3 | 27 | 2026-07-30 |
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