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youtube.com

classified as first-party · 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 — first-party

youtube.com is the app's own service domain (YouTube, owned by Google), so this contact is first-party and inherently covered by the app's extensive declared collection categories. No third-party data flow is implied, so nothing appears undisclosed here.

OpenAI — first-party

youtube.com is the app's own service domain and is most likely first-party. The privacy label declares extensive collection categories that cover likely data flows from this contact.

Google Gemini — first-party

youtube.com is the primary first-party domain for the YouTube app. First-party communication for core app operations is consistent with the app's declared data collection.

Apps measured contacting this domain

AppLabel gapDonationsContactsSeen
YouTube442026-07-28 → 2026-07-29

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