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Cult of Mac
Who runs Cult of Mac, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest technology news alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- 9to5Mac
Measured from Cult of Mac’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Cult of Mac01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Cult of Mac
Cult of Mac cultofmac.com
Cult of Mac | Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.
Wikidata: blog covering Apple related news
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Cult of Mac 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
8 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 5 tools
- EU company
- 1 tool
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.
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 Cult of Mac
None of the 60 sites closest to Cult of Mac 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 Cult of Mac 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 · 16 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,222
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 39 ms
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.0.2
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.cultofmac.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=1759254860
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://www.cultofmac.com/wp-content/plugins/flexy-breadcrumb/public/css/font-awesome.min…
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Plausible asset https://plausible.io/js/plausible.outbound-links.pageview-props.js?ver=2.1.4
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Meta Pixel page source: connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577bca5bed134a6-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.0.2)
- Video
- YouTube embeds page source: youtube.com/embed/
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 mx include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.mail.hostinger.com includ…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS dan.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=1KetW4h7fjFxhQMh
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: 9IdO4og72X3A3zw3cQzkNbCx919SkiC9JO-RQjlx4a8
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=wgaxepqesx4miy34nep7c6pzsephc6
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace · not on cultofmac.com 17/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on cultofmac.com 12/20
- Google Tag Manager 12/20
- PHP 12/20
- WordPress 12/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- nginx · not on cultofmac.com 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS 9/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on cultofmac.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on cultofmac.com 6/20
- Parse.ly · not on cultofmac.com 5/20
- OpenAI · not on cultofmac.com 5/20
- Apple Business 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on cultofmac.com 4/20