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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
Toronto Sun

Measured from The Star’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 Star

The Star thestar.com

thestar.com is one of Canada's largest online news sites and 100% Canadian-owned. Live news, investigations, politics, sports and the heartbeat of Toronto, Canada's largest city.

Wikidata: daily newspaper in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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

3 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 14 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
3 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.

  • 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 · 13 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,221
Vector
384-d
Query
33 ms

Built with

CSS & UI
  • Font Awesome asset https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/thestar.com/shared-content/art/tncms/templat…
Fonts
Tag managers
Advertising
Security
  • reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/enterprise.js
CDN
  • jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/jwt-decode/build/jwt-decode.min.js
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=XByLFO_zPYLFQOaAPaS18yEXypvpN0AtWdS3R…
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=EViSAYLPTq2C1KinCWAJzcrU7dc65tEjuCCcoxrRHFM
  • Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=3bbgrghtkgk347kvf183escofgjv94