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.
encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com
classified as cdn · 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 — cdn
gstatic.com is Google's static-content/CDN domain, and the 'encrypted-tbn' hosts serve image thumbnails; since Google Maps is published by Google, this is first-party CDN infrastructure rather than a third-party tracker. No data flow beyond the app's own extensive declared collection is implied, so nothing appears undisclosed.
OpenAI — cdn
The gstatic.com domain is commonly used by Google to serve static resources, and the encrypted-tbn host appears consistent with thumbnail or other content delivery. The provided label declares broad collection categories, and the contact alone does not establish an undeclared data flow.
Google Gemini — cdn
encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com is owned by Google and used as a content delivery network (CDN) to serve static assets such as image thumbnails. As Google Maps is a first-party Google application, loading content from gstatic.com is standard first-party operational traffic.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Maps | — | 3 | 6 | 2026-07-30 |
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