aboutcookies.org
About Cookies
Who runs About Cookies, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online privacy education alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- CookieSearch
Measured from About Cookies’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit About Cookies01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs About Cookies
About Cookies aboutcookies.org
A cookie is a very small text file placed on an internet user's hard drive. It is generated by a web page server, which is basically the computer that operates a website.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What About Cookies 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
13 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to About Cookies
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to About Cookies, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Home - CookieSearch
CookieSearch is an open-source database of 100,000+ pre-categorized cookies. Find information on web cookies - category, URL, script and description.
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Cookiedatabase.org
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Welcome to Boutell.Com, Inc.!
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How to enable JavaScript in your browser and why
Instructions on how to enable (activate) JavaScript in web browser and why.
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W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python, PHP, Bootstrap, Java, XML and more.
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web.dev
Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.
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Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme
Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.
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Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
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Encyclopedia.com | Free Online Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia.com – Online dictionary and encyclopedia with pictures, facts, and videos. Get information and homework help with millions of articles in our FREE, online library.
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Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
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jQuery
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Wikimapia - Let's describe the whole world!
Wikimapia is an online editable map - you can describe any place on Earth. Or just surf the map discovering tonns of already marked places.
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Language selection | European Union
Discover how the EU functions, its principles, priorities; find out about its history and member states; learn about its legal basis and your EU rights.
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The Top Coding and Computer Science Platform for K-12 Schools | CodeHS
CodeHS is the comprehensive K-12 platform for computer science, AI, and digital literacy — free curriculum, IDE, grading tools, and professional development for schools and districts nationwide.
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Find the School that Fits You Best - Niche
Finding the right school shouldn't be hard. From K-12 to college to grad school, we make it easy to discover and connect with the best ones for you.
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Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
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Wiktionary
free online multilingual dictionary
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online library of manuals
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American media company
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What browser? My browser? Is my browser out of date?
What browser do I have? Find out my browser, check that my browser is up to date and what my settings are.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles About Cookies’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones About Cookies uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what About Cookies 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, the competitor map and search numbers · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,195
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 27 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to About Cookies’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- LinkedIn Insight Tag page source: snap.licdn.com/li.lms-analytics
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630a7829edaf33-HAM
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS jamie.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=O1v9XDc8NphyPFgbEJgadVULtBQdbTlcGuzhlZNoL-o
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Google Workspace · not on aboutcookies.org 9/20
- jQuery · not on aboutcookies.org 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on aboutcookies.org 6/20
- nginx · not on aboutcookies.org 5/20
- PHP · not on aboutcookies.org 5/20
- Cloudflare 5/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on aboutcookies.org 5/20
- WordPress · not on aboutcookies.org 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS 4/20
- Mailchimp · not on aboutcookies.org 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on aboutcookies.org 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on aboutcookies.org 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on aboutcookies.org 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on aboutcookies.org 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on aboutcookies.org 3/20