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Boing Boing

Who runs Boing Boing, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest technology culture blog alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: Jason Kottke

Measured from Boing Boing’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Boing Boing

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Boing Boing is the Web's favorite site devoted to technology, entertainment, and culture. Launched in 1989 as a print 'zine and still...

Wikidata: blog

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

02 · Privacy

What Boing Boing 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

More than all 18 alternatives below.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: Quantcast Choice
US company: 7 tools

Advertising and retargeting

Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
- Amazon Publisher ServicesUS
- Meta PixelUS
Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
- ComscoreUS
- Google AnalyticsUS
Marketing and email tracking

Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
- MailchimpUS
Tag manager

Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
- Google Tag ManagerUS
Privacy-friendly analytics

Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
- Cloudflare Web AnalyticsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Boing Boing

Fewer trackers than Boing Boing No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Boing Boing 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 Boing Boing 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 · 18 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,216
Vector: 384-d
Query: 32 ms

Built with

CMS: WordPress page source: /wp-content/
JavaScript libraries: jQuery asset https://c0.wp.com/c/7.1.4/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js
Analytics: Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
Tag managers: Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
Advertising: Amazon Publisher Services page source: c.amazon-adsystem.com
Meta Pixel page source: connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js
Marketing automation: Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 ip4:204.11.50.128/28 include:servers.mcsv.net include:amazonse…
Cookie consent: Quantcast Choice page source: cmp.quantcast.com
CDN: Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56323ab7cd7b243-HAM
Languages & backends: PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
Email delivery: Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 ip4:204.11.50.128/28 include:servers.mcsv.net include:amazonse…
DNS hosting: Cloudflare DNS NS ryan.ns.cloudflare.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: 24ECEF65525D0D014895DB1255B1A9D0
Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: 2Z2CdDZoCt3kedjrHnPrbA3HjYnoXwwgy2pjFo552ws
Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=ujgb22qbsx6y12bclz0wv9mtnlccst

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.