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img.alicdn.com

classified as cdn · 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 — cdn

img.alicdn.com is Alibaba's own image content-delivery domain, and the app is published by Alibaba, so this is first-party CDN infrastructure serving product imagery rather than a tracking endpoint. Asset fetching from the publisher's own CDN does not imply a data flow beyond the app's declared collection, so nothing here appears undisclosed.

OpenAI — cdn

The alicdn.com domain name strongly indicates a content-delivery domain, likely used to serve images or other static assets. The provided information does not establish a data flow beyond content delivery that is absent from the app's label.

Google Gemini — cdn

img.alicdn.com is Alibaba's content delivery network used to serve images and static media assets for the AliExpress app. This standard delivery of content by the first party does not constitute undisclosed data tracking or collection.

Apps measured contacting this domain

AppLabel gapDonationsContactsSeen
AliExpress - Shopping App442026-07-28 → 2026-07-29

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