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-tbn2.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 own static-content/asset domain, and the 'encrypted-tbn' hosts serve encrypted image thumbnails (e.g., search result previews), so for a Google-published app this is first-party CDN infrastructure rather than a third-party tracker. Fetching thumbnails implies no data flow beyond the app functionality and identifiers/search data already declared, so nothing here appears undisclosed.
OpenAI — cdn
The gstatic.com domain is commonly used by Google for static content delivery, and the encrypted-tbn2 host appears consistent with image or thumbnail serving. The app declares broad collection categories, and the contact alone does not establish an uncovered data flow.
Google Gemini — cdn
encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com is a Google-owned static content delivery network domain used to host image thumbnails. Contacting a first-party CDN to fetch app assets does not constitute undisclosed third-party data collection or sharing.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Gemini | — | 4 | 4 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
| Google Maps | — | 3 | 9 | 2026-07-30 |
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