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entitlements-edge.itunes.apple.com

classified as first-party · 2

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.

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Anthropic Claude — first-party

The domain is a subdomain of itunes.apple.com, Apple's own infrastructure, and the app bundle is Apple's Podcasts app, so this is first-party contact most plausibly for subscription/entitlement verification (I have no independent source confirming its exact function). Since the operator of the endpoint is the same party as the app publisher and the contact appears functional rather than a data flow to a third party, nothing here indicates a flow beyond the app's (empty) declared label.

OpenAI — first-party

The domain is within apple.com and appears to be an Apple entitlement service, making it most likely first-party infrastructure. No evidence provided indicates collection or sharing beyond the app label, so undisclosed cannot be determined.

Google Gemini — first-party

entitlements-edge.itunes.apple.com is an Apple-owned domain used for verifying content and service entitlements for Apple Podcasts, representing standard first-party operational infrastructure.

Apps measured contacting this domain

AppLabel gapDonationsContactsSeen
com.apple.podcasts442026-07-28 → 2026-07-29

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