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.
avatars.githubusercontent.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 medium — classification split: anthropic=first-party, openai=cdn, gemini=first-party. A human reviewed this domain's claims before anything here published.
Anthropic Claude — first-party
avatars.githubusercontent.com is GitHub's own user-content asset host (githubusercontent.com is GitHub/Microsoft-operated) used to serve profile avatar images, so this is first-party infrastructure functioning as a CDN for the GitHub app itself. Fetching avatars is expected app functionality and implies no data flow beyond the app's own declared collection, so it does not appear undisclosed.
OpenAI — cdn
avatars.githubusercontent.com is plausibly used to serve GitHub avatar images and appears consistent with a content-delivery function. The provided label already declares relevant app interaction and identifier-related collection, and the contact alone does not establish an undeclared data flow.
Google Gemini — first-party
avatars.githubusercontent.com is a first-party content host owned by GitHub to serve user profile images. Loading essential first-party media assets does not constitute undisclosed data collection or sharing.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub | — | 3 | 3 | 2026-07-29 |
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