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The Guardian

Who runs The Guardian, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest daily newspaper alternatives.

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

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs The Guardian

The Guardian theguardian.com

Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice

Wikidata: British national daily newspaper

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

02 · Privacy

What The Guardian 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

5 of the 15 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.

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Cookie banner
OneTrust
US company
2 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.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to The Guardian

Fewer trackers than The GuardianNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to The Guardian 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 Guardian 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 · 17 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,214
Vector
384-d
Query
46 ms

Built with

Analytics
  • Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
Advertising
Cookie consent
  • OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=ce4031d6f7b94fdb9ed409ab9cf643d3
Payments
  • Stripe TXT stripe-verification=85178DB4E6F4EC41721B7F20BD9F04B21E2B630ADA8156BDF…
Monitoring
  • Sentry page source: .ingest.us.sentry.io
Email hosting
DNS hosting
  • NS1 NS dns1.p04.nsone.net
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=af3ef20fdc1d370aee02414a73ce0db9f1b465c21…
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=4qbvNZKyKKZyBtdU
  • DocuSign TXT docusign=1f00efb3-0975-459c-b221-e46452a0f92a
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=ujq5XlF5Ty7dwXv7S3AV99WRr8IwetZIjNqqloPpKmA
  • Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=9qqmd2kl745hph02i64iyoxvdphmi9
  • Miro TXT miro-verification=9bbe1ce0f13ab2efbbda64d44bd0db3c1f17fd60
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-m8f1SR7Sj1HI4BIM0XsZAOxx
  • Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:spf_c.oraclecloud.com include:…
  • Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=K3gfZj51sHXR6hxk5BVVfunkmGnHxc4NvwNtqo77

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