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Patch
Who runs Patch, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest local news alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- TAPinto
Measured from Patch’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Patch01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Patch
Patch patch.com
The best breaking news, stories, and events from the Patch network of local news sites
Wikidata: U.S. local news and information platform
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Patch 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
13 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 6 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
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 Patch
None of the 60 sites closest to Patch 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 Patch 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 · 18 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 48 ms
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Advertising
- Amazon Publisher Services page source: c.amazon-adsystem.com
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 a mx include:aspmx.sailthru.com include:_spf.google.com includ…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-chi-kigq8000060-CHI, cache-ber1080035-BER
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-815.awsdns-37.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=JGc0F-VCXwnww0aytCdoYQZxbbKvlZEgB1GuBbZKARw
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=IUAylHRA1OTIjHtv-r5Py156P4CXImu7Q3D7nw…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=x2woIfwcIEr_VzaeXv4oWvmhRKeBw-FiAKqCNV8m6gU
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=1s2yw12u2s0ti2jr8sbh9877z09ljn
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-ZsNTguuxpVqTxk2a0smM5EP7
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on patch.com 15/20
- Meta Business Suite 12/20
- Google Ad Manager 12/20
- Atlassian · not on patch.com 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 10/20
- Adobe · not on patch.com 10/20
- Amazon SES · not on patch.com 9/20
- React 9/20
- Apple Business 8/20
- OneTrust 8/20
- OpenAI 8/20
- Fastly 8/20
- Next.js 7/20
- Zendesk 6/20