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Mental Floss

Who runs Mental Floss, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest digital trivia magazine alternatives.

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

Who runs Mental Floss

Mental Floss mentalfloss.com

Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.

Wikidata: American magazine

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

02 · Privacy

What Mental Floss 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

2 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 11 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
OneTrust
US company
2 tools

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

  • Third-party embeds

    Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Mental Floss

Fewer trackers than Mental FlossNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Mental Floss 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 Mental Floss 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 · 12 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
36 ms

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • Qwik page source: q:container=
Fonts
Tag managers
Live chat & support
  • Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:aspmx.sailthru.com include:_spf.google.com include:mai…
Cookie consent
CDN
  • Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: MJu4RkLtlLWkJvXMsSXYQn_xPnT_BI0B6k_mbhH_5AWS_D6Teyvv2Q==
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Brevo TXT brevo-code:25bd81de5f53ea7ec3c6b9f3e71ef018
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)