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VICE

Who runs VICE, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest digital news media alternatives.

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

Measured from VICE’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 VICE

VICE vice.com

VICE is a global media channel focusing on investigative journalism and enlightening videos about everything from world news, travel, art, drugs, politics, sports, fashion, sex, and super cute animals.

Wikidata: magazine focused on international arts and culture

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

02 · Privacy

What VICE 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

14 of the 15 alternatives below have fewer, 0 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found
US company: 7 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.
Marketing and email tracking

Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
- MailchimpUS
Tag manager

Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
- Google Tag ManagerUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to VICE

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

None of the 60 sites closest to VICE 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 VICE 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 · 22 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,200
Vector: 384-d
Query: 30 ms

Built with

CMS: WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.0.8
JavaScript libraries: jQuery asset https://www.vice.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
Analytics: Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
Parse.ly page source: cdn.parsely.com
Tag managers: Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
Advertising: LinkedIn Insight Tag page source: snap.licdn.com/li.lms-analytics
TikTok Pixel page source: analytics.tiktok.com/i18n/pixel
X (Twitter) Pixel page source: static.ads-twitter.com/uwt.js
Marketing automation: Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:servers.…
CDN: cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/crypto-js/4.1.1/crypto-js.min.js?ver=4.1.1
Web servers: nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends: PHP cookie PHPSESSID
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms95705199
Email delivery: Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:servers.…
DNS hosting: Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1136.awsdns-14.org
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=BOrbQ950ceBMRT6K
Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=hskXXsfAYScT3KMiq7xVqeq8pA3Dkwaz5RTPEUt…
GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=Fw09cFhmPL_-Bfg6BV5_NkyDEkXJfmQd4uPVi…
Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=v4Zf8BcP9sjIEkb-rLGU3Ac5H9n1PXQGKR1CLzxXCxw
Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=p28ly5dk7y0h9ifoyy14yc3uy9q51m

Sitemaps

, 267,784 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.