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The Star

Who runs The Star, 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
The Sun

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs The Star

The Star thestar.com.my

Get the latest Malaysia news stories and opinions with focus on National, Regional, Sarawak and World News, as well as reports from Parliament and Court.

Wikidata: English-language daily newspaper in Malaysia and news website published by Star Media Group Berhad

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

02 · Privacy

What The Star 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

More than all 18 alternatives below.

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

  • 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.

  • 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 Star

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

None of the 60 sites closest to The Star 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 Star 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 · 19 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,222
Vector
384-d
Query
25 ms

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • Vue.js asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue@2.5.12/dist/vue.min.js
JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.0/jquery.min.js
CSS & UI
  • Bootstrap asset https://cdn.thestar.com.my/Themes/js/bootstrap.min.js
  • Font Awesome asset https://cdn.thestar.com.my/Themes/css/font-awesome.min.css
Fonts
  • Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:300,300i,400,400i,700,700i,900,900i&display=…
Analytics
Tag managers
Advertising
CDN
  • Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: jwVxhC_oIY4xdNkrS6PebpD7BXn5itc1a1qLhes-uBeNWRbz3DQcWg==
  • cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/URI.js/1.18.10/URI.min.js
  • jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue@2.5.12/dist/vue.min.js
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:eh1kl06qgw.powerspf.com include:mailgun.org ip4:88.99.…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)