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
None of the 60 sites closest to About Cookies 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 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 and search numbers · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,222
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 42 ms
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