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GameStar

Who runs GameStar, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest video game journalism alternatives.

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

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs GameStar

GameStar gamestar.de

GameStar.de versorgt euch mit Tests, Previews, Videos, Reportagen und News zu PC-Spielen und Hardware. Wir liefern Spielejournalismus, dem ihr vertrauen könnt.

Wikidata: German PC gaming magazine

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

02 · Privacy

What GameStar 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

10 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
Didomi
US company
4 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 GameStar

Fewer trackers than GameStarNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in German

None of the 60 sites closest to GameStar 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 GameStar 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 · 17 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,217
Vector
384-d
Query
63 ms

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Fonts
Analytics
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  • Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
Tag managers
Advertising
  • Criteo page source: static.criteo.net
Cookie consent
  • Didomi page source: sdk.privacy-center.org
Security
CDN
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Email hosting
Email delivery
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DNS hosting
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