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The Conversation

Who runs The Conversation, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online news and commentary alternatives.

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

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs The Conversation

The Conversation theconversation.com

Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.

Wikidata: news organization that publishes news articles written by academics

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

02 · Privacy

What The Conversation 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

Fewer than all 19 alternatives below.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found

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

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to The Conversation

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree plan

None of the 60 sites closest to The Conversation 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 The Conversation 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
9,221
Vector
384-d
Query
46 ms

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • Next.js page source: /_next/static/
  • React implied by Next.js (page source: /_next/static/)
Payments
  • Stripe TXT stripe-verification=B50ABDD36E5F58827640B20817D99EE3262800925AFF6EE19…
CDN
  • Fastly header x-served-by: cache-chi-kigq8000166-CHI, cache-ber1080032-BER
Hosting
  • Google Cloud header via: 1.1 google, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.salesforce.com ip4:23.21.…
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=WkMT4MJWjWcC3csbzo4R7AbUZrneLNY8q0f-CEvQVx0
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=gyeGKvuGtcVsT6g58QJ89G7Bhzguj7jCXWBIpmx…
  • Canva TXT canva-site-verification=Nj-Dsc0AEOP995BTs5wNDw
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=I4BlH49DCiuGk2QNXZ4-nOEyAf2wEjw0h1ac82P_L-M
  • Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=l382f2v2i1nfui3f9jbe5qld3rw0sn
  • Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.salesforce.com ip4:23.21.…
  • Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=xUFyQGptIuaQbvz9gupfRkniC06SlIx4cJR12oHf

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