theintercept.com
The Intercept
Who runs The Intercept, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest investigative news media alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Mother Jones
Measured from The Intercept’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit The Intercept01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs The Intercept
The Intercept theintercept.com
Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.
Wikidata: US online newspaper
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What The Intercept 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.
tracker that follows visitors
1 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 14 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to The Intercept
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Intercept, thumbs down if it isn’t.
4 of the 60 sites closest to The Intercept match.
- 01
The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.
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.
Very close - 02
netzpolitik.org - Medium für digitale Freiheitsrechte
2026-10-16 Wir suchen in 3 3 0 0 Tagen 3 3 0 0 0 0 Menschen Werde jetzt bis 15.11. Brandschutzhelfer:in für netzpolitik.org – mit einer monatlichen Dauerspende. Gemeinsam treten wir der Faschisierung entgegen und kämpfen für eine freie, offene und solidarische Gesellschaft.
Very close - 03
The Kyiv Independent — News from Ukraine, Eastern Europe
News, analyses, investigations, opinions, podcasts and more. On-the-ground reporting from Ukraine
Very close - 04
BBC Home | Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio
Visit BBC for trusted reporting on the latest world and US news, sports, business, climate, innovation, culture and much more
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles The Intercept’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones The Intercept uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what The Intercept 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, the competitor map and search numbers · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 168 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to The Intercept’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Proton Mail MX mail.protonmail.ch
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS dora.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=nuWNBRgq7Tbv7H4V
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=ia8pDB7xsp05F2zwBWCjiU_jk6uvoi-gztZ5QUE0B1I
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=o4e91x4ku9ni6lkevwxuz63bgud0r4
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace · not on theintercept.com 18/20
- Meta Business Suite 15/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on theintercept.com 12/20
- PHP 11/20
- WordPress 11/20
- Google Tag Manager 9/20
- jQuery · not on theintercept.com 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on theintercept.com 8/20
- nginx 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on theintercept.com 7/20
- Atlassian · not on theintercept.com 7/20
- GlobalSign · not on theintercept.com 7/20
- Apple Business 7/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on theintercept.com 6/20
- Parse.ly · not on theintercept.com 6/20