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The Hindu

Who runs The Hindu, 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: –
Closest alternative: Hindustan Times

Measured from The Hindu’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 The Hindu

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The Hindu Newspaper: Get latest News on Politics, Sports, Business, Arts, Entertainment and trending news Videos from The Hindu

Wikidata: English-language daily newspaper in India

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

02 · Privacy

What The Hindu 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

6 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found
US company: 7 tools

Advertising and retargeting

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

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager

Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
- Google Tag ManagerUS
Third-party embeds

Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
- Google FontsUS
Privacy-friendly analytics

Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
- Cloudflare Web AnalyticsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to The Hindu

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

None of the 60 sites closest to The Hindu 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 The Hindu 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 · 12 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,222
Vector: 384-d
Query: 37 ms

Built with

CSS & UI: Bootstrap asset https://www.thehindu.com/theme/css/th-online/bootstrap.min.css?ver=1793107377
Fonts: Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Merriweather:wght@300;400;700&family=Merriweathe…
Analytics: Chartbeat page source: static.chartbeat.com
Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/analytics.js
Tag managers: Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
Advertising: Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
CDN: Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630f3de8410fcc-HAM
DNS hosting: Cloudflare DNS NS serena.ns.cloudflare.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: jlS-WsOVad-iw4X4xO0EJnHuzr3pK7WqXt3oCy7jpXI
Yandex Webmaster meta yandex-verification: ff4648e5089d361d

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.