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fel-api.prod.browse.bestbuy.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
The domain is a subdomain of bestbuy.com, matching the app's own bundle identifier (com.bestbuy.buyphone), so it appears to be a first-party backend API (naming suggests product browse/search functionality). Contact with a first-party service endpoint does not by itself establish a data flow beyond the app's own operation, and the empty label gives no basis to conclude a specific undisclosed collection or sharing.
OpenAI — first-party
The domain is a bestbuy.com subdomain and appears likely to support Best Buy's own browsing API. No evidence is provided about what data was transmitted, so an undisclosed data flow cannot be determined from this contact alone.
Google Gemini — first-party
The contacted domain belongs directly to Best Buy and serves as a first-party API endpoint for product browsing functionality within the app. Standard functional requests to a first-party domain do not inherently indicate undisclosed data collection.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
com.bestbuy.buyphone | — | 4 | 12 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
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