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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.

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Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to MakeUseOf

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

5 of the 60 sites closest to MakeUseOf match.

  1. 01
    anandtech.com English No trackers

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  2. 02
    TechPowerUp techpowerup.com English No trackers

    TechPowerUp

    Leading tech publication, with fast news, thorough reviews, and a strong community.

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  3. 03
    GitHub github.blog Top 10K English No trackers

    Home - The GitHub Blog

    Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.

    Compare GitHub with MakeUseOf →
  4. 04
    Popular Mechanics popularmechanics.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Popular Mechanics - Product Reviews, How-To, Space, Military, Math, Science, and New Technology

    Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world, whether it's practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science.

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  5. 05
    Comparitech comparitech.com English No trackers

    Comparitech - Tech researched, compared and rated

    Tech researched, compared and rated

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles MakeUseOf’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones MakeUseOf uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy 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, the competitor map and search numbers · 9 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,201
Vector
384-d
Query
42 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to MakeUseOf’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

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