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.
youtubei.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
youtubei.googleapis.com is the YouTube InnerTube API endpoint operated by Google, the same publisher as the app, so it is a first-party backend contact rather than a third-party tracker. The app's label already declares broad collection covering this kind of app-functionality and analytics data flow, so nothing here appears outside the declared label.
OpenAI — first-party
youtubei.googleapis.com is a Google API domain consistent with YouTube's own service infrastructure. The label declares extensive collection categories that cover likely data flows from this contact.
Google Gemini — first-party
youtubei.googleapis.com is Google's backend API (Innertube API) used directly for core YouTube app functionality, making it a first-party domain. The app declares extensive data collection, and routine first-party backend requests do not imply an undisclosed third-party data flow.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube | — | 4 | 20 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
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