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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
- Today I Found Out
Measured from Mental Floss’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Mental Floss01 · 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
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
- 9,221
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 34 ms
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Qwik page source: q:container=
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:aspmx.sailthru.com include:_spf.google.com include:mai…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: otSDKStub
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: MJu4RkLtlLWkJvXMsSXYQn_xPnT_BI0B6k_mbhH_5AWS_D6Teyvv2Q==
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms12917153
- Email delivery
- Brevo TXT brevo-code:25bd81de5f53ea7ec3c6b9f3e71ef018
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1783.awsdns-30.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=LV6dh4kX-YtEkDCh-SiewnGyNcWjwOCaVGPrtIrL2bE
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=8p8k8s86fzfb5d2g2zq15818aj4u62
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Meta Business Suite 16/20
- Amazon Route 53 11/20
- Apple Business · not on mentalfloss.com 10/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on mentalfloss.com 9/20
- Google Analytics · not on mentalfloss.com 8/20
- GlobalSign · not on mentalfloss.com 8/20
- OneTrust 8/20
- Amazon CloudFront 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on mentalfloss.com 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on mentalfloss.com 6/20
- Mailchimp · not on mentalfloss.com 6/20
- DocuSign · not on mentalfloss.com 6/20
- Adobe · not on mentalfloss.com 6/20