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Who runs CNET, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Technology news media alternatives.

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

Who runs CNET

CNET cnet.com

Get full-length product reviews, the latest news, tech coverage, daily deals, and category deep dives from CNET experts worldwide.

Wikidata: American company; tech media website

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

02 · Privacy

What CNET 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

11 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
OneTrust
US company
3 tools

  • Advertising and retargeting

    Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.

  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to CNET

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

None of the 60 sites closest to CNET 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 CNET 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 · 19 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,214
Vector
384-d
Query
62 ms

Built with

CMS
Analytics
Tag managers
Advertising
Cookie consent
  • OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 6.9.11)
Authentication
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=cd8dab640ab786a9457c8757f4188cd682dd687a6…
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=QUsZX4LdPWTYZgx09JhShFot27EJnUl/5CyxXFs…
  • Canva TXT canva-site-verification=d0dFqCCuxz7OU_dNK6a7sg
  • GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=KaParXxs1OHDy7o8CMbPpHBN-2m_mzwdPqKMMQ…
  • Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: I1kHyfzmmG1fEVjq8GBUgkfCHc6PNtxce1_VyUuJhws
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-kCzo3rDttzNjIZico5FPXu7f
  • Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:sp…

Sitemaps

, 6,007 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.