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Freestar

Who runs Freestar, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Publisher ad monetization alternatives.

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

Measured from Freestar’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 Freestar

Freestar freestar.com

Freestar offers best-in-class header bidding technology that maximizes programmatic monetization for enterprise publishers. We consider ourselves wholistic partners, invested in the long term growth of your business.

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

02 · Privacy

What Freestar 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

18 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 0 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: Sourcepoint
US company: 6 tools

Advertising and retargeting

Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
- Google Ads conversion trackingUS
Visitor analytics

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

Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
- HubSpotUS
- Salesforce PardotUS
Tag manager

Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
- Google Tag ManagerUS
Third-party embeds

Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
- Google FontsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Freestar

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

None of the 60 sites closest to Freestar 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 Freestar 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 · 20 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,221
Vector: 384-d
Query: 181 ms

Built with

CMS: WordPress page source: /wp-content/
JavaScript libraries: jQuery asset https://freestar.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
Fonts: Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
Analytics: Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
Tag managers: Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
Advertising: Google Ads conversion tracking page source: gtag('config', 'AW-
Marketing automation: HubSpot TXT v=spf1 include:amazonses.com include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zen…
Salesforce Pardot page source: pi.pardot.com
Live chat & support: Intercom page source: widget.intercom.io
Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:amazonses.com include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zen…
Cookie consent: Sourcepoint page source: cdn.privacy-mgmt.com
CDN: cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/iframe-resizer/4.2.11/iframeResizer.min.js
Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577a078dfad131b-HAM
Hosting: WP Engine header x-powered-by: WP Engine
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 include:amazonses.com include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zen…
DNS hosting: Cloudflare DNS NS zara.ns.cloudflare.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=BE1QstMua4Qdb9Bs
Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=UWhGzlkR87lbOwzJHWMLbzsTPSxjiFyccCbZbqejDhU

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.