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SFGATE

Who runs SFGATE, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest local news website alternatives.

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

Measured from SFGATE’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 SFGATE

SFGATE sfgate.com

Today's San Francisco Bay Area news, plus the latest in sports, weather, food, politics, culture, tech, Tahoe and national parks.

Wikidata: American news website based in San Francisco, California, United States

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

02 · Privacy

What SFGATE 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

2 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 9 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found
US company: 1 tool

Advertising and retargeting

Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
- Google Ad ManagerUS
- Taboola

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to SFGATE

Fewer trackers than SFGATE No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to SFGATE 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 SFGATE 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 · 15 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,222
Vector: 384-d
Query: 35 ms

Built with

JavaScript frameworks: Next.js page source: /_next/static/
React implied by Next.js (page source: /_next/static/)
Advertising: Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
Taboola page source: cdn.taboola.com
Monitoring: New Relic page source: NREUM
CDN: Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080052-BER, cache-ber1080030-BER
Web servers: Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache/2.4.65 (Unix)
Email hosting: Microsoft 365 MX sfgate-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=3ebb0754e0941b0fd3e9cfe346802f5b6321a2a9b…
Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=FpL/aWW65m3p2lAjgu9uaxMnORyl2KLKjkSbpFU…
Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: 9451CA04ABC9D1D5C6419C73B4C4F7B7
GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=Iiihy-iv_vLdlIMtHvh-aCdqO2T53oCoknhW4…
Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=MhIxpkTaMNCW3TCfkC0j38khn03PtCoswQPB_DcI7qc
Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=qqynxm212f5lyr5u525q554vlwn7kk
OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-W45nYtCHsBlkQWvpBLfy9OiI

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.