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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.
18 of the 60 sites closest to Access Now match.
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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 - 02
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 - 03
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 - 04
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 - 05
CCC | Home
The Chaos Computer Club is a galactic community of life forms campaigning for freedom of information and the assessment of the impact of technology.
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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Close - 07
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
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DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite
international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation
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NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
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Let's Encrypt
Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Read all about our work in our Annual Report.
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Home Page
API endpoint
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Wikimedia
The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.
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Hyphanet
free software
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Making sure you're not a bot!
French research institution in computer science
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Department of Justice | Homepage | United States Department of Justice
Official website of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). DOJ’s mission is to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.
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Software Freedom Conservancy
The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
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Liberapay
We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.
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Home | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
American government agency
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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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 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