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Thrillist

Who runs Thrillist, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest digital lifestyle media alternatives.

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

Measured from Thrillist’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 Thrillist

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Thrillist is an online media website covering travel, experiences, and local neighborhoods. Thrillist was founded in 2004 by Ben Lerer and Adam Rich. Thrillist covers national and international travel, news, and, as of 2023, 18 cities across the United States.

Wikidata: American media company

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

02 · Privacy

What Thrillist 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 16 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: OneTrust
US company: 3 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.
- Google AnalyticsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Thrillist

Fewer trackers than Thrillist No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Thrillist 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 Thrillist 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 · 21 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,217
Vector: 384-d
Query: 40 ms

Built with

JavaScript frameworks: Next.js page source: /_next/static/
React implied by Next.js (page source: /_next/static/)
Analytics: Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/analytics.js
Advertising: Amazon Publisher Services page source: c.amazon-adsystem.com
Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
Prebid.js page source: prebid.js
Cookie consent: OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
CDN: Fastly header x-served-by: cache-iad-kcgs7200107-IAD, cache-ber1080036-BER
Web servers: nginx header server: nginx/1.31.8
Languages & backends: Express header x-powered-by: Express
Video: JW Player page source: cdn.jwplayer.com
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms98852096
Email delivery: SendGrid TXT v=spf1 ip4:205.220.178.19 ip4:205.220.166.19 a mx include:aspmx.sailt…
DNS hosting: Amazon Route 53 NS ns-857.awsdns-43.net
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=e6863c0fae7d26749d906f0efda98b3abbd42d88d…
Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=VkaIOJ0FEn9UfiE8
GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=ugXKIfBtSVRAb3hX3Oxuh4T_JRBIYqJuz6zls…
Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=RjafNLWzWhb02tZF_N24K3cul8u_hodNqM_iExqIoBA
Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=btrc5jshcw21sq1cy0hsk80cgm4ejm
Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=1nt0RzaORHrqHvf6UDfVflcBp9j8shDv3UgEthcm

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.