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mobilecontent.costco.com

classified as first-party · 2

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Anthropic Claude — first-party

mobilecontent.costco.com is a subdomain of costco.com, the app publisher's own domain, and the name suggests it serves mobile app content; this is first-party infrastructure (possibly fronted by a CDN, which I cannot determine from the data given). A first-party content endpoint is expected for this app and does not imply a data flow beyond the declared app-interaction and performance collection.

OpenAI — first-party

The domain is a Costco subdomain and most likely serves first-party mobile content. The provided privacy label already declares collection of app interactions and related app-performance data, so this contact alone does not demonstrate an undisclosed flow.

Google Gemini — first-party

The domain mobilecontent.costco.com is a first-party subdomain belonging to Costco Wholesale, used to deliver content directly to the app. As a first-party functional endpoint, this network contact does not represent undisclosed tracking or third-party data sharing.

Apps measured contacting this domain

AppLabel gapDonationsContactsSeen
Costco Wholesale442026-07-28 → 2026-07-29

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