privateinternetaccess.com
Private Internet Access
Who runs Private Internet Access, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest consumer VPN service alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- ExpressVPN
Measured from Private Internet Access’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Private Internet Access01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Private Internet Access
Private Internet Access privateinternetaccess.com
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Wikidata: virtual private network provider
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Private Internet Access 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
17 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 0 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 5 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.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Private Internet Access
None of the 60 sites closest to Private Internet Access 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 Private Internet Access 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 · 22 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,222
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 45 ms
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- React page source: data-reactroot
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://widget.trustpilot.com/bootstrap/v5/tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js
- Font Awesome asset https://assets-cms.privateinternetaccess.com/vendor/@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css/fon…
- Tailwind CSS page source: --tw-border-spacing-x:
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/analytics.js
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ads conversion tracking page source: gtag('config', 'AW-
- Microsoft Advertising UET page source: bat.bing.com/bat.js
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk page source: static.zdassets.com
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ouibounce/0.0.12/ouibounce.min.js
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5779d2b4cdb62d3-HAM
- Reviews
- Trustpilot page source: widget.trustpilot.com
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms33525435
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS gene.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=Vyi1JcjogWkkIZc4
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=AsiGSJlMQ6GNhZSMVSyt+gEq2IClyv/rDtsdXhz…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=0babfe11-44a4-4adc-95dc-03b6bf84cea5
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=oQCLH0C_rorRRyOn1_dizTvVfyjKMmml32kDXwuLEkE
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-tIxvxKxRNf39id9lF1JPpleB
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Google Fonts · not on privateinternetaccess.com 9/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS 8/20
- Atlassian 7/20
- Google Tag Manager 7/20
- PHP · not on privateinternetaccess.com 7/20
- nginx · not on privateinternetaccess.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on privateinternetaccess.com 6/20
- React 6/20
- WordPress · not on privateinternetaccess.com 6/20
- Next.js · not on privateinternetaccess.com 5/20
- Bootstrap 5/20
- Microsoft Clarity · not on privateinternetaccess.com 5/20
- Microsoft 365 4/20