thestandard.com.hk

The Standard

Who runs The Standard, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest daily newspaper alternatives.

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

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs The Standard

The Standard thestandard.com.hk

The Standard, Hong Kong's premier free English news outlet, covers a lively mix of local and international news, all at no cost.

Wikidata: English free newspaper in Hong Kong

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

02 · Privacy

What The Standard 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 17 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
5 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.

  • 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.

  • Privacy-friendly analytics

    Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to The Standard

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

None of the 60 sites closest to The Standard 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 Standard 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
9,221
Vector
384-d
Query
33 ms

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • Next.js page source: /_next/static/
  • React implied by Next.js (page source: /_next/static/)
Fonts
  • Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto:wght@300;400;500;600;700&display=swap
Analytics
  • Chartbeat page source: static.chartbeat.com
  • Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
Tag managers
Advertising
CDN
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)