← Measured in the wild

lh3.googleusercontent.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.

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=first-party, openai=cdn, gemini=cdn. A human reviewed this domain's claims before anything here published.

Anthropic Claude — first-party

lh3.googleusercontent.com is Google's own user-content hosting/CDN endpoint (commonly used to serve profile and other user images), so for a Google-published app this is a first-party contact rather than a third-party tracker; it could equally be described as a CDN. Fetching hosted account/profile imagery is consistent with the app's declared collection of Photos, Name, Email address and User IDs, and no third-party data flow is implied, so nothing here appears outside the label.

OpenAI — cdn

lh3.googleusercontent.com appears to be a Google-hosted content delivery domain, commonly used to serve images and other static user content. The provided label declares broad collection categories, and the contact alone does not establish an undeclared data flow.

Google Gemini — cdn

lh3.googleusercontent.com is a Google-owned content delivery network domain used to host static assets and profile images. Because it represents first-party infrastructure serving app content, the contact does not appear undisclosed.

Apps measured contacting this domain

AppLabel gapDonationsContactsSeen
Google Authenticator71062026-07-28 → 2026-07-30
com.google.OnHub4312026-07-28 → 2026-07-29
Google Gemini4122026-07-28 → 2026-07-29
YouTube482026-07-28 → 2026-07-29
Booking.com: Hotels & Travel442026-07-28 → 2026-07-29
Gmail3452026-07-30
Google Maps3212026-07-30
com.google.Chromecast332026-07-29
Google (Search)332026-07-30
com.lemon.lvoverseas332026-07-30

The corpus grows one report at a time: donate your App Privacy Report — anonymous by design.

Think something here is wrong?

Evidence and research improve when people push back. Tell us what to re-check — a misattributed domain, an outdated classification, a claim about your own app — and a human will review it. Responses can take up to 30 days.

If you leave an email it is encrypted at rest and opened only to answer you — never shared, never used for anything else. It is erased 30 days after we resolve this (or 180 days if it is still open) without you asking, and you can erase it sooner at any time; either way your correction stays, anonymously. Leave it blank and your request is fully anonymous from the start (we store no IP address either way).