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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
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Mental Floss, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Today I Found Out | Learn Interesting Facts Every Day
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American magazine
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Sporcle | Play Fun Trivia Quizzes on Every Topic
Discover the world's largest trivia and quiz site. Test your knowledge on Geography, Sports, Music, TV and more!
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BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed has breaking news, vital journalism, quizzes, videos, celeb news, Tasty food videos, recipes, DIY hacks, and all the trending buzz you’ll want to share with your friends. Copyright BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Thrillist - Adventure is always around the corner.
Thrillist is an online media website covering travel, experiences, and local neighborhoods. Thrillist was founded in 2004 by Ben Lerer and Adam Rich. Thrillist covers national and international travel, news, and, as of 2023, 18 cities across the United States.
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Consequence | Music, Movie, TV and Pop Culture News for the Mainstream and Underground
Consequence is your source for breaking news about music, film, and TV, plus daily reviews, exclusive interviews, original videos, and more.
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Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas
Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.
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National Geographic
Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration.
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New Atlas: Technology-Innovation-Outdoor News
Extraordinary ideas and innovations moving the world forward.
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Playbuzz - Quizzes, Polls & Personality Tests
Take fun quizzes, personality tests, and polls. Discover what makes you unique with Playbuzz.
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Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
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The Best In Us - Upworthy
At Upworthy, we make the best in humanity more visible so it becomes more possible. ✨ Together with our community, creators, and partners, we create stories, ideas, and experiences that change how people see themselves and the world, and inspire them to add more good to it.
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Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts
Online magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news.
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Aeon | a world of ideas
Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish in-depth essays from the world’s most incisive and ambitious thinkers, and a mix of original and curated videos — free to all.
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Mashable
Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.
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Scientific American
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
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Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
Very close - 20
Bustle
Bustle is the premier digital destination for young women. Since launching in 2013, Bustle has been creating relatable and impactful dialogue through content from a diverse set of voices. Covering politics, sex and relationships, fashion, beauty, entertainment, and more, Bustle empowers women to be curious, to be themselves, and to be excited about owning their place in the world.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Mental Floss’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Mental Floss 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 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, the competitor map and search numbers · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,197
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 22 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Mental Floss’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.
similarity × popularity
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