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Kotaku

Who runs Kotaku, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest video game news alternatives.

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

Measured from Kotaku’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 Kotaku

Kotaku kotaku.com

Wikidata: video game website and blog

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

02 · Privacy

What Kotaku 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 17 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
5 tools

  • Advertising and retargeting

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

  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

  • Privacy-friendly analytics

    Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Kotaku

Fewer trackers than KotakuNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Kotaku 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 Kotaku 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 · 14 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,214
Vector
384-d
Query
36 ms

Built with

CMS
JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://kotaku.com/wp/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
CSS & UI
  • Font Awesome asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css
Analytics
  • Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
  • Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
Tag managers
Advertising
Marketing automation
  • Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:_spf.…
CDN
  • cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css
  • Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56320bff8c61f5f-HAM
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-includes/)
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)