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.
i.ytimg.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
i.ytimg.com is YouTube's own image/thumbnail hosting domain (ytimg.com is Google's YouTube static content infrastructure), so this is a first-party content delivery endpoint serving video thumbnails. Fetching app content from the operator's own CDN implies no data flow beyond what the app's extensive label already covers.
OpenAI — cdn
i.ytimg.com is a YouTube image/media delivery domain and most likely functions as a content delivery endpoint. The app's label declares broad collection categories that could cover associated app use; the contact alone does not demonstrate an undisclosed data flow.
Google Gemini — cdn
i.ytimg.com is a Google-owned content delivery domain used to host YouTube static image assets, such as video thumbnails. This represents standard first-party content delivery and does not indicate an undisclosed data flow.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube | — | 4 | 40 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
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