microg.org
GitHub
Who runs GitHub, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest open-source Android software alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- F-Droid
Measured from GitHub’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit GitHub01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs GitHub
GitHub microg.org
Free implementation of Play Services. Contribute to microg/GmsCore development by creating an account on GitHub.
Wikidata: free and open-source alternative to Google Play Services
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What GitHub 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.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on GitHub’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to GitHub
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to GitHub, thumbs down if it isn’t.
1 of the 60 sites closest to GitHub matches.
- 01
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Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles GitHub’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones GitHub 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 GitHub 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 · 2 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,209
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 47 ms
Built with
- Hosting
- GitHub Pages header server: github.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: Apib7-x98H0j5cPqHWwSMm6dNU4GmODRoqxLiDzdx9I
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on microg.org 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on microg.org 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on microg.org 5/20
- Fastly · not on microg.org 4/20
- jQuery · not on microg.org 4/20
- Google Cloud DNS · not on microg.org 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on microg.org 4/20
- nginx · not on microg.org 3/20
- Bootstrap · not on microg.org 3/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on microg.org 3/20
- jsDelivr · not on microg.org 3/20
- Google Cloud · not on microg.org 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on microg.org 2/20
- GitHub Pages 2/20
- Netlify · not on microg.org 2/20