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-tbn3.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 delivery infrastructure, and the encrypted-tbn* hosts serve encrypted image thumbnails; since the app itself is published by Google, this is first-party CDN traffic rather than third-party tracking. Nothing in the measurement indicates a data flow beyond content fetching, so no undisclosed collection can be established from what is given.
OpenAI — cdn
The gstatic.com domain is commonly used by Google for static content delivery, and the encrypted-tbn host pattern is consistent with thumbnail/content serving. The app's label declares broad collection categories, and the provided contact alone does not establish an undeclared data flow.
Google Gemini — cdn
gstatic.com is a Google-owned domain used to serve static content and image thumbnails. Because Google Gemini is a first-party Google application, contacting its CDN to load static assets does not constitute undisclosed third-party tracking or data collection.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Gemini | — | 4 | 4 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
| Google Maps | — | 3 | 6 | 2026-07-30 |
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