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auto-api.yelp.com
classified as first-party · 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 — first-party
auto-api.yelp.com is a subdomain of yelp.com, the app publisher's own domain, so this is a first-party API endpoint (likely an autocomplete/search-suggestion service) rather than a third-party tracker or ad network. The declared label shows nothing at all, which may reflect missing label data rather than an omission; a first-party API call by itself does not establish a data flow beyond the developer, so I cannot conclude it is undisclosed.
OpenAI — first-party
The domain is a yelp.com subdomain and most likely provides Yelp's own API services. Although the label declares nothing, the contact alone does not establish a specific data flow that the label fails to cover.
Google Gemini — first-party
The domain auto-api.yelp.com is a first-party endpoint belonging to Yelp, matching the app's bundle identifier. First-party API traffic for core functionality does not inherently indicate undisclosed third-party tracking or collection.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
com.yelp.yelpiphone | — | 4 | 8 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
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