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.
assets-mercury.mzstatic.com
classified as cdn · 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 — cdn
mzstatic.com is the static asset/CDN domain long associated with Apple's App Store and iTunes media (app icons, screenshots, artwork), so contact from the App Store app itself looks like first-party content delivery rather than third-party tracking; ownership was not supplied in this record, so this rests on the domain's well-known association with Apple rather than a cited source. No evidence of a data flow beyond fetching store assets, and Apple's own preinstalled App Store has no third-party store label to contradict, so nothing here reads as undisclosed.
OpenAI — cdn
The mzstatic.com domain is commonly used for Apple-hosted static assets, and this assets subdomain most likely serves CDN content. No evidence provided shows collection or sharing of user data, so undisclosed status cannot be determined as true.
Google Gemini — cdn
assets-mercury.mzstatic.com is part of Apple's mzstatic.com domain infrastructure, which serves as a content delivery network for App Store and iTunes assets. Standard content retrieval from a first-party CDN does not constitute an undisclosed privacy violation.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
com.apple.AppStore | — | 7 | 57 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-30 |
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