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The Local

Who runs The Local, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest expat news publication alternatives.

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

Measured from The Local’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 Local

The Local thelocal.ch

Latest news, travel, politics, money, jobs and more. Get guides on property, second homes, visas, language, taxes from The Local's journalists in Switzerland.

Wikidata: multi-regional English-language digital news publisher

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

02 · Privacy

What The Local 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

9 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
2 tools

  • Advertising and retargeting

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

  • Tag manager

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

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to The Local

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

None of the 60 sites closest to The Local 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 Local 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 · 11 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,222
Vector
384-d
Query
32 ms

Built with

CMS
JavaScript frameworks
  • Vue.js asset https://www.thelocal.ch/js/vue.js?id=31a3093f90e1a46ac1171699c4e46f8b
CSS & UI
  • Font Awesome asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/6.7.2/css/all.min.css
Tag managers
Advertising
CDN
  • cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/
Hosting
Languages & backends
  • PHP header x-powered-by: PHP/8.4.27
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)