`assets.alicdn.com`

classified as cdn · 2

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.

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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

assets.alicdn.com is Alibaba's own content delivery domain (alicdn is Alibaba's CDN hostname family), serving static assets to Alibaba's own app, so it is a first-party CDN endpoint rather than a third-party tracker. Asset fetching implies at most incidental technical data (IP, user agent) already consistent with the app's declared diagnostics/device ID collection, so nothing here appears undisclosed.

OpenAI — cdn

The assets.alicdn.com hostname appears to be an asset-delivery endpoint, consistent with a CDN. The provided label is broad, but the contact alone does not establish an undeclared data flow.

Google Gemini — cdn

assets.alicdn.com is a content delivery network owned by Alibaba Group used to host static assets for its applications and web properties.

Apps measured contacting this domain

App	Label gap	Donations	Contacts	Seen
Alibaba.com - B2B marketplace	—	4	4	2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29

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