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Access Now
Who runs Access Now, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest digital rights advocacy alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- European Digital Rights
Measured from Access Now’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Access Now01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Access Now
Access Now accessnow.org
Digital rightsfor everyone. Derechos digitalespara todas. .الحقوق الرقمية للجميع Droits numériquespour tous. Access Now defends and extends the digital
Wikidata: non-profit organization
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Access Now 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.
tracker that follows visitors
5 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Access Now
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Access Now, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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European Digital Rights (EDRi)
The EDRi network is a collective of NGOs, experts, advocates and academics working to defend and advance digital rights across the continent.
Very close - 02
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc
Very close - 03
Fight for the Future
Who are we? We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression. Battle […]
Very close - 04
La Quadrature du Net
La Quadrature du Net promeut et défend les libertés fondamentales remises en question par certains usages des outils informatiques. L’association lutte par exemple contre la censure et la surveillance, que celles-ci viennent des États ou des entreprises privées. Elle questionne la façon dont le numé
Very close - 05
non-profit organization in the USA
Close - 06
American private research institute (1994-)
Very close - 07 ARTICLE 19 article19.org
organization
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Internet Society: The Internet is for Everyone - Internet Society
The Internet Society is a global charity working to close the digital divide and advocate for a secure and open Internet that people can trust.
Very close - 09
Digitalcourage
Digitalcourage engagiert sich seit 1987 für eine lebenswerte Welt im digitalen Zeitalter
Very close - 10
Privacy Guides
Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.
Very close - 11
Amnesty International
We are a global movement of more than 10 million people in over 150 countries who campaign campaign for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all.
Very close - 12
American Civil Liberties Union | The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.
The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.
Very close - 13
Front Line Defenders | Front Line Defenders
human rights organization in Dublin, Ireland
Very close - 14
Homepage - Human Rights Foundation
More than half of the world lives under tyranny.Tyranny is the root of poverty, war, and torture.We’re uniting the world to stand against tyranny.
Very close - 15
Front Page — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
organization supporting the free software movement
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Legal Defense Fund
Founded in 1940 by Thurgood Marshall, the Legal Defense Fund is America's premier legal organization fighting for racial justice.
Very close - 17
Avaaz - The World in Action
Avaaz is the campaigning community bringing people-powered politics to decision making worldwide.
Very close - 18
Human Rights Watch | Defending Human Rights Worldwide
Human Rights Watch defends the rights of people in 100 countries worldwide, spotlighting abuses and bringing perpetrators to justice
Very close - 19
Home - Lambda Legal
We are a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and everyone living with HIV.
Very close - 20
The Shadowserver Foundation
The Shadowserver Foundation is a nonprofit security organization working altruistically behind the scenes to make the Internet more secure for everyone.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Access Now’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Access Now 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 Access Now 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 · 14 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 44 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Access Now’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
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.accessnow.org/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- CSS & UI
- Tailwind CSS page source: --tw-content:
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Matomo page source: piwik.php
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=A93F31689B5DA4012E1CED26A8619F7C1348EE23EF381537C…
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577bf055a4a62b5-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Video
- Vimeo page source: player.vimeo.com/video
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS dina.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: T8SpKMeGzcIT_8dd7tEmRTi2ykbEZMA1fwCp-7cu864
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.e-activist.com include:_s…
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- PHP 13/20
- Cloudflare DNS 11/20
- WordPress 10/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on accessnow.org 10/20
- Apple Business · not on accessnow.org 10/20
- Cloudflare 9/20
- jQuery 7/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on accessnow.org 7/20
- nginx · not on accessnow.org 6/20
- SendGrid · not on accessnow.org 5/20
- Google Workspace 5/20
- Zoom · not on accessnow.org 5/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on accessnow.org 5/20
- Stripe 4/20
- Atlassian · not on accessnow.org 4/20