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.
audid-api.taobao.com
operated by Alibaba Group · 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=first-party, openai=analytics, gemini=first-party. A human reviewed this domain's claims before anything here published.
Anthropic Claude — first-party
audid-api.taobao.com is an Alibaba Group domain (per the supplied ownership attribution), so contact from AliExpress is to an affiliated first-party endpoint; the 'audid' path suggests a device-identifier service, which is covered by the app's declared collection of 'Device or other IDs'. Whether Alibaba treats cross-brand Taobao infrastructure as a distinct third party is not determinable from the data given.
OpenAI — analytics
The Alibaba-owned audid-api.taobao.com domain appears consistent with a device identifier/analytics service. The app declares collection of Device or other IDs and App interactions, so this contact is covered by the label.
Google Gemini — first-party
The contacted domain audid-api.taobao.com is owned by Alibaba Group, which is the parent entity of AliExpress, making this a first-party service request. Furthermore, the app discloses collecting Device or other IDs in its privacy disclosures.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AliExpress - Shopping App | — | 4 | 8 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
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