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LWN.net

Who runs LWN.net, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest technology news publication alternatives.

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

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs LWN.net

LWN.net lwn.net

Wikidata: computing webzine with an emphasis on Unix-like operating systems

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

02 · Privacy

What LWN.net 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

None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 17 have more.

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Cookie banner
None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on LWN.net’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to LWN.net

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    The Register theregister.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

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  3. 03
    heise online heise.de Top 10K English 1 tracker

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    How-To Geek howtogeek.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

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  17. 17
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    Computerworld computerworld.com Top 10K English 4 trackers

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what LWN.net adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

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Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,197
Vector
384-d
Query
48 ms

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