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The Sun

Who runs The Sun, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest tabloid newspaper alternatives.

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

Measured from The Sun’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 Sun

The Sun thesun.co.uk

Get the latest news, exclusives, sport, celebrities, showbiz, politics, business and lifestyle from The Sun

Wikidata: British tabloid newspaper

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

02 · Privacy

What The Sun 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

7 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
2 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.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to The Sun

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

None of the 60 sites closest to The Sun 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 Sun 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 · 17 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,217
Vector
384-d
Query
33 ms

Built with

CMS
Tag managers
  • Tealium page source: tags.tiqcdn.com
Advertising
Monitoring
CDN
  • Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: oLbV5da2W1zJ_4fhdO17DoaaVYV1fRlBGxxoFdpSfoORQaemaocJdg==
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 6.8.12)
Video
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=627d3f0b-a0d9-4a42-93c9-52d7e9b35602
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=uNoIhBXurxzVlQa0FvK2t9Yld5byfvXbFRQaMTo…
  • Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: E4359034FA254151A3AB2EFAC6D20D80
  • Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: ktbIDvT70_hbFNTapMeOkJ5BkjqY5hO7HRFtkB0yzHc
  • Miro TXT miro-verification=876fd2e87e812aadd96eca532bf071be63109b0e
  • Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_02A0JDVORdqHbeawnzucYg