lifehacker.com

Lifehacker

Who runs Lifehacker, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest consumer tech and lifestyle media alternatives.

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

Measured from Lifehacker’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

Visit Lifehacker

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Lifehacker

Lifehacker lifehacker.com

Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.

Wikidata: software and life hacks website and blog

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

02 · Privacy

What Lifehacker 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

More than all 17 alternatives below.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: OneTrust
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.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Lifehacker

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

None of the 60 sites closest to Lifehacker 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 Lifehacker 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 · 15 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,212
Vector: 384-d
Query: 32 ms

Built with

CSS & UI: Tailwind CSS page source: --tw-translate-x:
Analytics: Chartbeat page source: static.chartbeat.com
Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
Google Analytics page source: gtag("config", "G-
Advertising: Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
Meta Pixel page source: connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js
Prebid.js page source: prebid.js
Cookie consent: OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=cea86b2c01e84a158a1b440879c93f7b
CDN: Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56315d05fdc62bc-HAM
Authentication: Firebase page source: .firebaseapp.com
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
DNS hosting: Cloudflare DNS NS owen.ns.cloudflare.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): DocuSign TXT docusign=98fb1fe5-0c2f-4d46-8a16-d26f42ce6628
GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=63GY7DdhmEwU6Yc6mPqIRV6Tlu3atl9B6izj6…
Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=3DLUukA4-5eOiZ71hPqAcv2gN-5Dw7pF1T4UtabDr6k

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.