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The Journal

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

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

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs The Journal

The Journal thejournal.ie

Read, share and shape the news on TheJournal.ie - Breaking Irish and International News

Wikidata: Irish Online News Publication

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

02 · Privacy

What The Journal 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

14 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
5 tools
EU company
1 tool

  • Advertising and retargeting

    Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.

  • Session recording

    Records clicks, scrolling and typing so the company can replay visits.

  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

  • Third-party embeds

    Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to The Journal

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

None of the 60 sites closest to The Journal 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 Journal 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 · 21 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,222
Vector
384-d
Query
72 ms

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Fonts
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Analytics
Tag managers
Advertising
Marketing automation
  • Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:_spf.google.com include:spf.m…
Payments
  • Stripe TXT stripe-verification=8e35711422c1b17f589fcf8140d7b4602bedcac730dccd855…
Monitoring
  • Bugsnag page source: d2wy8f7a9ursnm.cloudfront.net
Security
  • reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
CDN
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Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends
  • PHP header x-powered-by: PHP/7.1.33-81+0~20261022.128+ubuntu22.04~1.gbpa88ccf
Authentication
  • Firebase page source: gstatic.com/firebasejs/
Email hosting
Email delivery
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)