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MacRumors

Who runs MacRumors, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest technology news alternatives.

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Closest alternative
9to5Mac

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs MacRumors

MacRumors macrumors.com

Apple News and Rumors

Wikidata: website focused on news relating to Apple, Inc.

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

02 · Privacy

What MacRumors 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

8 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.

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3 tools

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to MacRumors

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    The Verge theverge.com Top 1K English 2 trackers

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    PCWorld pcworld.com Top 10K English 5 trackers

    PCWorld

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    GSMArena.com gsmarena.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

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    XDA Developers xda-developers.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    XDA

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    Wired wired.com Top 1K English 2 trackers

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    MakeUseOf makeuseof.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what MacRumors 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.

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Query
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