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The Stranger

Who runs The Stranger, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest alternative weekly newspaper alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Part of wordpress.com
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
The Seattle Times

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs The Stranger

The Stranger thestranger.com

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Wikidata: alternative weekly newspaper in Seattle

Company
No imprint we could read
Part of
wordpress.com Runs this domain’s DNS
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What The Stranger 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 19 alternatives below.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
8 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.

  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • 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 Stranger

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

None of the 60 sites closest to The Stranger 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 Stranger 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 · 20 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,205
Vector
384-d
Query
45 ms

Built with

CMS
Ecommerce
JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://c0.wp.com/c/7.1.4/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js
CSS & UI
  • Font Awesome asset https://kit.fontawesome.com/1a5dd3b0ab.js
Fonts
Analytics
Tag managers
Advertising
Marketing automation
  • Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 a mx include:_spf.google.com include:helpscoutemail.com includ…
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 a mx include:_spf.google.com include:helpscoutemail.com includ…
  • SendGrid TXT v=spf1 a mx include:_spf.google.com include:helpscoutemail.com includ…
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)