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Something Awful

Who runs Something Awful, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online discussion forums alternatives.

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

Measured from Something Awful’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 Something Awful

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Wikidata: comedy website founded by Richard Kyanka

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

02 · Privacy

What Something Awful 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

None of the 12 alternatives below has fewer; 9 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Something Awful’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Something Awful

No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan

None of the 60 sites closest to Something Awful 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 Something Awful 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 · 6 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,216
Vector: 384-d
Query: 36 ms

Built with

JavaScript libraries: jQuery asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.1/jquery.min.js
CDN: cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.1/jquery.min.js
Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577ad793e5462b9-HAM
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
DNS hosting: Cloudflare DNS NS gail.ns.cloudflare.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=9GcKHBlPiK86Tx3wiFVKdSsY6JzmxIcR2XJj2g-wdY8

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.