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9to5Mac
Who runs 9to5Mac, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest technology news alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- MacRumors
Measured from 9to5Mac’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit 9to5Mac01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs 9to5Mac
9to5Mac 9to5mac.com
Apple News & Mac Rumors Breaking All Day
Wikidata: American technology news website focused on Apple products and services
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What 9to5Mac tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
More than all 16 alternatives below.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 7 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to 9to5Mac
None of the 60 sites closest to 9to5Mac match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what 9to5Mac adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack and search numbers · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,222
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 60 ms
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript frameworks
- React asset https://9to5mac.com/wp-includes/js/dist/vendor/react.min.js?ver=18.3.1.1
- JavaScript libraries
- Lodash asset https://9to5mac.com/wp-includes/js/dist/vendor/lodash.min.js?ver=4.18.1
- Fonts
- Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/
- Analytics
- Parse.ly page source: cdn.parsely.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Amazon Publisher Services page source: c.amazon-adsystem.com
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Google AdSense page source: pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle
- Marketing automation
- OneSignal page source: cdn.onesignal.com/sdks/
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=8Gn27up-pHdGbt5Snodd59AhZScvIl8dma1RFWpYlHg
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=5psnhqz5juiv5v7zj4nxza1k87hzou
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Google Tag Manager 12/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on 9to5mac.com 11/20
- Google Ad Manager 10/20
- Cloudflare · not on 9to5mac.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- PHP 9/20
- WordPress 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on 9to5mac.com 7/20
- nginx 6/20
- Mailchimp · not on 9to5mac.com 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on 9to5mac.com 5/20
- Atlassian · not on 9to5mac.com 5/20
- Apple Business · not on 9to5mac.com 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on 9to5mac.com 4/20