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.
api-m.paypal.com
classified as first-party · 1
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 medium — classification split: anthropic=unknown, openai=first-party, gemini=first-party. A human reviewed this domain's claims before anything here published.
Anthropic Claude — unknown
api-m.paypal.com is PayPal's public REST API endpoint (payment processing), a third-party functional service that does not fit the tracker/analytics/advertising/CDN/first-party categories offered, so I classify it as unknown rather than guess. The app already declares collecting User payment info and Purchase history, so a checkout call to a payment processor is consistent with its label.
OpenAI — first-party
api-m.paypal.com appears to be a PayPal payment-service endpoint rather than a tracker or advertising domain. The app declares collection of user payment information, so this contact does not clearly imply an undeclared data flow.
Google Gemini — first-party
The domain api-m.paypal.com is PayPal's API endpoints for handling payment processing and transactions. Temu explicitly declares collecting 'User payment info' in its privacy label, so this functional contact is disclosed.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temu | — | 4 | 16 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
| PayPal - Pay, Send, Save | — | 4 | 8 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
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