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Laughing Squid

Who runs Laughing Squid, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest culture blog alternatives.

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

Measured from Laughing Squid’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 Laughing Squid

Laughing Squid laughingsquid.com

a daily dose of unique and curious things

Wikidata: American art and culture blog

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

02 · Privacy

What Laughing Squid 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

7 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 9 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found
US company: 2 tools

Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
- ComscoreUS
- Google AnalyticsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Laughing Squid

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

None of the 60 sites closest to Laughing Squid 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 Laughing Squid 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 · 12 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,221
Vector: 384-d
Query: 30 ms

Built with

CMS: WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4
Analytics: Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
Web servers: nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends: PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4)
DNS hosting: Cloudflare DNS NS gail.ns.cloudflare.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=jlnBtzoM-8PRZf4q4GOYyu-RCogRnQIKMTcdZHGHa3U
Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: 025390F08D242EF9553D9FB91E800B51
Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: jJyLGaYS5OcLQKNjQ3hN9jTVV6CMcalfPNN3lA3lir4
Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=5tnff0y6vt7fo4q1s8p3lkbfwb9vwh
OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-8WBu3tu8uqeH2r9p8PyX79cC
Yandex Webmaster meta yandex-verification: a843a3bd30673488

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.