theoatmeal.com

The Oatmeal

Who runs The Oatmeal, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest webcomics alternatives.

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

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs The Oatmeal

The Oatmeal theoatmeal.com

Wikidata: humor website

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

02 · Privacy

What The Oatmeal 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 19 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.

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Cookie banner
None found
US company
4 tools
  • Advertising and retargeting

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

  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • Third-party embeds

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

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to The Oatmeal

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

None of the 60 sites closest to The Oatmeal match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what The Oatmeal 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 · 10 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,217
Vector
384-d
Query
97 ms

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