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Slashdot
Who runs Slashdot, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest technology news aggregator alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Ars Technica
Measured from Slashdot’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Slashdot01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Slashdot
Slashdot slashdot.org
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
Wikidata: technology-related news website (launched 1997)
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Slashdot 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
12 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 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.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Slashdot
None of the 60 sites closest to Slashdot 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 Slashdot 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 · 7 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,221
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 44 ms
Built with
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/ga.js
- Matomo page source: _paq.push(
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: googletag.pubads()
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 ip4:216.105.38.0/26 ip4:216.34.181.51 include:servers.mcsv.net…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630c8f3eb80d22-HAM
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=uNYSi1PcKvBrZjpA8ftcmExM2qpIK5OMd6I13B2m8YI
- Yandex Webmaster TXT yandex-verification: 12ee25860da9b12f
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace · not on slashdot.org 16/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on slashdot.org 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on slashdot.org 8/20
- PHP · not on slashdot.org 8/20
- WordPress · not on slashdot.org 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on slashdot.org 8/20
- nginx · not on slashdot.org 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on slashdot.org 7/20
- Google Ad Manager 7/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on slashdot.org 6/20
- Cloudflare 5/20
- Atlassian · not on slashdot.org 4/20
- Mailchimp 3/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on slashdot.org 3/20
- React · not on slashdot.org 3/20