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.
fundingchoicesmessages.google.com
classified as advertising · 2
Independent tracker databases attribute this domain to Google LLC (Google Privacy & Messaging), associated with data such as advertising ID, OS, screen size, SDK version — per TrackHAR (CC0).
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 medium — classification split: anthropic=advertising, openai=first-party, gemini=advertising. A human reviewed this domain's claims before anything here published.
Anthropic Claude — advertising
fundingchoicesmessages.google.com is the endpoint for Google's Funding Choices / Privacy & messaging consent-management service, which is part of Google's ad-funding stack (AdSense/Ad Manager), so it is best grouped with advertising infrastructure rather than a standalone tracker. The app already declares sharing Device or other IDs, App interactions and Approximate location, which covers the kind of data a consent/ad-serving endpoint would receive, so nothing here appears outside the label.
OpenAI — first-party
The domain is a Google-operated endpoint associated with Funding Choices consent/privacy messaging, not clearly an advertising or analytics endpoint from the provided data. The contact alone does not establish a data flow beyond the app's declared label.
Google Gemini — advertising
fundingchoicesmessages.google.com belongs to Google Funding Choices, a consent management platform used to serve user privacy and ad consent messages. The contact does not appear undisclosed as the app already declares sharing Device or other IDs and App interactions.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zoom Earth - Weather Forecast | — | 4 | 31 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
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