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Who runs Ars Technica, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest technology news alternatives.

Who’s behind it
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Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
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Last price change
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Closest alternative
The Verge

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Ars Technica

Ars Technica arstechnica.com

News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.

Wikidata: technology news and information website

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Ars Technica 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

1 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 11 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
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US company
1 tool

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Ars Technica

Fewer trackers than Ars TechnicaNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Ars Technica match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Ars Technica 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.

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Query
51 ms

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