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How-To Geek

Who runs How-To Geek, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest technology news and how-to alternatives.

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

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs How-To Geek

How-To Geek howtogeek.com

We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.

Wikidata: technology news publication

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

02 · Privacy

What How-To Geek 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

1 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 12 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to How-To Geek

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to How-To Geek, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than How-To GeekNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

7 of the 60 sites closest to How-To Geek match.

  1. 01
    anandtech.com English No trackers

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  2. 02
    TechPowerUp techpowerup.com English No trackers

    TechPowerUp

    Leading tech publication, with fast news, thorough reviews, and a strong community.

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  3. 03
    LWN.net lwn.net English No trackers

    Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]

    computing webzine with an emphasis on Unix-like operating systems

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  4. 04
    Comparitech comparitech.com English No trackers

    Comparitech - Tech researched, compared and rated

    Tech researched, compared and rated

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  5. 05
    GitHub github.blog Top 10K English No trackers

    Home - The GitHub Blog

    Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.

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    Digg digg.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Digg - News, before it trends

    See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.

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  7. 07
    Fortune fortune.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News

    Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what How-To Geek 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, the competitor map and search numbers · 9 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,215
Vector
384-d
Query
31 ms

Competitor map

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