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

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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.

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US company
1 tool

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Ars Technica

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

6 of the 60 sites closest to Ars Technica match.

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    anandtech.com English No trackers

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  2. 02
    TechPowerUp techpowerup.com English No trackers

    TechPowerUp

    Leading tech publication, with fast news, thorough reviews, and a strong community.

    Compare TechPowerUp with Ars Technica →
  3. 03
    36Kr 36kr.com English No trackers

    Chinese technology news website

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    Digg digg.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Digg - News, before it trends

    See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.

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    LWN.net lwn.net English No trackers

    Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]

    computing webzine with an emphasis on Unix-like operating systems

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    GitHub github.blog Top 10K English No trackers

    Home - The GitHub Blog

    Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.

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04 · History

What changed

Price and policy 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.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 8 technologies
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Sites searched
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