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.
connectivitycheck.gstatic.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
gstatic.com is a Google-operated static-content/infrastructure domain, and connectivitycheck.gstatic.com is the well-known endpoint used for network reachability / captive-portal detection (it returns an empty HTTP 204), so for Google's own Search app this is a first-party infrastructure call rather than a tracking or ad endpoint. A connectivity probe implies no data flow beyond what the app already declares (diagnostics/device info), so nothing here appears undisclosed.
OpenAI — first-party
connectivitycheck.gstatic.com is a Google-operated connectivity-check endpoint associated with the app's provider. The declared label already covers device identifiers, diagnostics, and other app-performance data, so this contact does not clearly imply an undeclared flow.
Google Gemini — first-party
connectivitycheck.gstatic.com is a Google-owned infrastructure domain used to test network connectivity, making it a first-party domain for the Google Search app. This utility connection does not indicate an undisclosed data flow.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google (Search) | — | 3 | 3 | 2026-07-30 |
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