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PCWorld

Who runs PCWorld, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest technology news and reviews alternatives.

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

Measured from PCWorld’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs PCWorld

PCWorld pcworld.com

PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to find the products you want and the advice you need to get the job done.

Wikidata: computer magazine

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

02 · Privacy

What PCWorld 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

15 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.

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Cookie banner
None found
US company
5 tools
  • Advertising and retargeting

    Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.

  • Session recording

    Records clicks, scrolling and typing so the company can replay visits.

  • 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 PCWorld

Fewer trackers than PCWorldNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to PCWorld match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what PCWorld 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 · 16 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,215
Vector
384-d
Query
36 ms

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