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notifications-pa.googleapis.com
classified as first-party · 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 — first-party
googleapis.com is Google's own API infrastructure domain, and notifications-pa appears to be Google's notification service endpoint, so for a Google-published app (com.google.ios.youtube) this is first-party backend contact rather than a third-party tracker. The app's label already declares broad collection including User IDs, Device or other IDs, and app interactions, which would cover this flow.
OpenAI — first-party
The domain is a googleapis.com endpoint and the app is YouTube by Google, so it most likely supports first-party Google service functionality such as notifications. The label declares broad collection categories including device IDs, app interactions, and other in-app messages, so this contact is not clearly an undeclared data flow.
Google Gemini — first-party
The domain notifications-pa.googleapis.com is an infrastructure endpoint owned by Google, the publisher of the YouTube app, used for handling push notifications. As first-party functional traffic, this contact does not indicate an undisclosed third-party data flow.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube | — | 4 | 12 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
| Google Gemini | — | 4 | 8 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
| Gmail | — | 3 | 69 | 2026-07-30 |
| Google Maps | — | 3 | 18 | 2026-07-30 |
| Google (Search) | — | 3 | 3 | 2026-07-30 |
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