cleanbrowsing.org

CleanBrowsing

Who runs CleanBrowsing, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest DNS content filtering alternatives.

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

Measured from CleanBrowsing’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 CleanBrowsing

CleanBrowsing cleanbrowsing.org

Affordable DNS filtering that blocks malware, adult content, and unwanted sites. Protect schools, families, and businesses at the network level.

Wikidata: DNS resolver

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

02 · Privacy

What CleanBrowsing 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

7 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
2 tools
EU company
1 tool
  • 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 CleanBrowsing

Fewer trackers than CleanBrowsingNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to CleanBrowsing 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 CleanBrowsing 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 · 11 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,221
Vector
384-d
Query
73 ms

Built with

JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js
CSS & UI
  • Bootstrap asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.1.3/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js
  • Font Awesome asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/6.2.0/css/all.min.css
Fonts
  • Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=DM+Sans:ital,opsz,wght@0,9..40,100..1000;1,9..40…
Analytics
Live chat & support
  • LiveChat page source: cdn.livechatinc.com/
CDN
  • cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js
  • jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.1.3/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js
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