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.ipify.org
classified as unknown · 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. 2 of 3 models answered, overall confidence high — no answer from gemini (parse). A human reviewed this domain's claims before anything here published.
Anthropic Claude — unknown
api.ipify.org is the endpoint of the ipify public IP-echo API (returns the caller's public IP address); I do not have verified ownership information for it, and it fits none of the tracker/analytics/ad/CDN/first-party categories cleanly, so 'unknown' is the safer call. The contact reveals the device IP to a third-party utility, but the app already declares collecting approximate/precise location and device IDs and nothing here establishes an uncovered data flow, so undisclosed is false.
OpenAI — unknown
api.ipify.org is commonly used to determine a device's public IP address, but the provided data does not establish ownership, purpose, or what data was transmitted. YouTube declares collecting device identifiers and location-related data, so an undisclosed flow cannot be determined from this contact alone.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube | — | 4 | 16 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
| Booking.com: Hotels & Travel | — | 4 | 12 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
com.nypost.iphone | — | 4 | 8 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
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