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Who runs watson, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online newspaper alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- 20min.ch
Measured from watson’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit watson01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs watson
watson watson.ch
watson – deine News-Plattform für die Schweiz. Aktuelle Nachrichten, spannende Hintergründe und unterhaltsame Storys. Bleib informiert mit den neuesten News und Trends.
Wikidata: Swiss online newspaper
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In German
02 · Privacy
What watson 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 18 alternatives below.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- consentmanager
- US company
- 4 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to watson
None of the 60 sites closest to watson 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 watson 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
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 59 ms
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Tailwind CSS page source: tailwindcss v4
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Taboola page source: cdn.taboola.com
- Marketing automation
- Cookie consent
- consentmanager page source: .consentmanager.net/
- Video
- JW Player page source: cdn.jwplayer.com
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 ip4:82.197.167.86 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mailjet.…
- Mailjet TXT v=spf1 ip4:82.197.167.86 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mailjet.…
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 ip4:82.197.167.86 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mailjet.…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=pLMQz3T4HTUgZpaw-VFpFep30SGEXwhlcCKzzHo0_rs
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on watson.ch 12/20
- Google Workspace 10/20
- Atlassian · not on watson.ch 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on watson.ch 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on watson.ch 7/20
- Next.js · not on watson.ch 6/20
- React · not on watson.ch 6/20
- Adobe · not on watson.ch 6/20
- OpenAI · not on watson.ch 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on watson.ch 5/20
- Google Tag Manager 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on watson.ch 5/20
- Google Ad Manager 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on watson.ch 5/20
- Miro · not on watson.ch 5/20