thespinoff.co.nz

The Spinoff

Who runs The Spinoff, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest digital news media alternatives.

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

Measured from The Spinoff’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 Spinoff

The Spinoff thespinoff.co.nz

New Zealand's home for independent journalism, illuminating perspectives and good times.

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

02 · Privacy

What The Spinoff 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 19 alternatives below have fewer, 15 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 Spinoff

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

None of the 60 sites closest to The Spinoff 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 Spinoff 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 · 7 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,221
Vector: 384-d
Query: 75 ms

Built with

Tag managers: Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
Payments: Stripe TXT stripe-verification=9b853f767cbb7d8164a120142a4a2deb8c14204c37f03b20b…
Hosting: Google Cloud header via: 1.1 google
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
Email delivery: Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:mailgun.org include:_spf.g…
Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:mailgun.org include:_spf.g…
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=_tQo1shZxMnJPBLfzKxCJDIf8J3e9qTXSYGN4OjkN_0

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.