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The Independent

Who runs The Independent, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online newspaper alternatives.

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

Measured from The Independent’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 The Independent

The Independent independent.co.uk

The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent.

Wikidata: British national daily newspaper

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

02 · Privacy

What The Independent 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

13 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found
US company: 2 tools

Advertising and retargeting

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

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

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to The Independent

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

None of the 60 sites closest to The Independent 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 The Independent 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 · 18 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,222
Vector: 384-d
Query: 44 ms

Built with

Tag managers: Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
Advertising: Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
Prebid.js page source: prebid.js
Taboola page source: cdn.taboola.com
Live chat & support: Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.google.com inc…
CDN: Fastly header x-served-by: cache-lhr-egll1980069-LHR, cache-ber1080048-BER, cache-ber1…
Authentication: Firebase page source: .firebaseapp.com
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms14560256
Email delivery: Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.google.com inc…
Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.google.com inc…
DNS hosting: Cloudflare DNS NS lars.ns.cloudflare.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=5c874982d9eb77c27639f75fe9649403668793e47…
Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=RM9N27RqIQhlhX0B
GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=zfCNvJt0iTcEchLrE0nrimsdl4h4m4zVTSJYOc…
Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=7jSyuxXF8wVTqjz3bvlLiGFkpFtli5tP9gkqVJCmg1s
Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=romovgbm3nyrpvudi6wheb7kank3yi
Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_y3Lp-IWWQx28ozGnH6HXGA

Sitemaps

, 2,280,715 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.