makeuseof.com

MakeUseOf

Who runs MakeUseOf, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest consumer technology media alternatives.

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

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs MakeUseOf

MakeUseOf makeuseof.com

MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.

Wikidata: American technology media publication

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

02 · Privacy

What MakeUseOf 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.

tracker that follows visitors

None of the 17 alternatives below has fewer; 13 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to MakeUseOf

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

None of the 60 sites closest to MakeUseOf match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what MakeUseOf 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 · 9 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,209
Vector
384-d
Query
32 ms

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CMS
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CDN
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Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:one.zoho…
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)