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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.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs The Intercept

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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.
- Google Tag ManagerUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to The Intercept

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

None of the 60 sites closest to The Intercept 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 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 and search numbers · 9 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,221
Vector: 384-d
Query: 29 ms

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.