westernunion.com

Western Union

Who runs Western Union, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest money transfer and remittances alternatives.

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

Measured from Western Union’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 Western Union

Western Union westernunion.com

Send and receive money transfers from the United States with Western Union. Check exchange rates, track transfers and send money online instantly.

Wikidata: American financial services and communications company

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

02 · Privacy

What Western Union 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 20 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: OneTrust
US company: 2 tools

Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
- AmplitudeUS
Tag manager

Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
- Adobe Experience Platform TagsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Western Union

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

None of the 60 sites closest to Western Union 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 Western Union 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: 9,214
Vector: 384-d
Query: 40 ms

Built with

CMS: Adobe Experience Manager page source: /content/dam/wu/
Analytics: Amplitude page source: cdn.amplitude.com
Tag managers: Adobe Experience Platform Tags asset https://assets.adobedtm.com/
Cookie consent: OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
Security: Akamai Bot Manager cookie bm_sz
CDN: Akamai header x-akamai-transformed: 0 - 0 -
Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: QzfE7BX3q8wyD6isxK-7MbmiA8vXZcUfRGbMP7iyNJ0EWwQux-9QzA==
Hosting: Amazon Web Services header server: AmazonS3
Email hosting: Microsoft 365 TXT "v=spf1 include:spf-00002a01.pphosted.com include:spf-00002a03.pphost…
Proofpoint MX mxa-00002a01.gslb.pphosted.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=f5e6ca8d0b35f8301f7dc4f322fe7cc23d407bcf9…
Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=WizI66ZdqY7ix0mG
Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=VdOuJuR/iIPTwPKH5LrrRC8XROVm8i4ErIZ1dgc…
DocuSign TXT docusign=055edb29-59f0-42f8-9b8d-5692c2b42a19
Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Qs-9D61IwA4kZeZgoamG4ijzLv36Kiaam_ZwHenkHtc
Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=e35tjnmq34ss9uafw7kzmgbcr80id7
Salesforce TXT "v=spf1 include:spf-00002a01.pphosted.com include:spf-00002a03.pphost…

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.