# Ars Technica

We have not found a subprocessor list published by Ars Technica. We monitor 2 of its documents, which we last checked on 2026-11-11.

Ars Technica (arstechnica.com): subprocessors, data processing agreement, security documents and changes, as monitored by Third Party Index.

- Page: https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/ars-technica
- Documents last verified: 2026-11-11
- Transparency rating: 25/100 (how much it publishes, not how secure it is): Subprocessor list 0/30 (not found); Processing locations 0/8 (no list); Purposes 0/7 (no list); Data processing addendum 12/12; Trust center 0/8 (not found); Privacy policy 0/6 (not found); security.txt 0/6 (not found); Security page 5/5; Status page 0/5 (not found); Vulnerability disclosure 0/5 (not found); Pages still reachable 8/8
- Supply chain: relies on 0 tracked vendors directly, 0 within two hops, 0 within three; 0 tracked vendors rely on it directly, 0 within two hops, 0 within three
- Cite as: Ars Technica, Third Party Index, https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/ars-technica (data CC BY 4.0)

## Documents

| Document | URL | Last verified | Last changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data processing addendum | https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/02/hands-on-mozillas-pocket-sized-firefox-mobile-for-maemo/ | 2026-11-11 | 2026-11-11 |
| Security page | https://arstechnica.com/security/ | 2026-11-11 | 2026-11-11 |

## Subprocessors (0)

No subprocessor list has been found or read for this vendor.

## Web Technologies

Ars Technica's homepage made 478 requests to 106 domains, 70 services controlled by another company, and 16 domains not identified. Loaded on 2026-10-12 by a browser that accepted nothing; other visits may load more or less. What a page loads is not a list of who receives customer data.

70 third parties by category: Advertising 35 (Google Cloud, PubMatic, Amazon, Magnite, Inc., Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC, Integral Ad Science, Inc., The Trade Desk, Inc., Index Exchange Inc., TripleLift, X Corp., Snap Inc.; reviewed: FreeWheel, BidSwitch GmbH, Nexxen, OpenX, Criteo, Blis Global Limited, DeepIntent, Equativ, Tapad, Inc., Exponential Interactive, Inc. (VDX.tv), Viant Technology, MediaMath, OnAudience Ltd, OneTag Limited, Semasio GmbH; usually detected as Advertising: Snap, Xandr, Basis Technologies (Basis; formerly Centro), Epsilon, Adform, Neustar, Inc. (TransUnion), StackAdapt, Simpli.fi, Taboola); Analytics 9 (TikTok, LinkedIn, Meta, Hotjar, TikTok; reviewed: Comscore, Parse.ly; usually detected as Analytics: Quantcast, Baidu); Marketing automation 2 (reviewed: Zeta Global; usually detected as Marketing automation: Adobe); Customer data platform 2 (reviewed: LiveRamp, Lotame); Miscellaneous 2 (Permutive; reviewed: Yahoo); Email 1 (usually detected as Email: LiveIntent); Retargeting 1 (usually detected as Retargeting: RTB House); Security 1 (Amazon Web Services); Widgets 1 (usually detected as Widgets: Outbrain); Unclassified 16 (DoubleVerify, Adelaide Metrics Inc, Opera Software Ireland Limited (Opera), Whaleco Inc. (Temu), Media Force, ADman Interactive S.L.U., PulsePoint, SparkV International Inc, AdTheorent, Aniview, ArcSpan Technologies, Inc., AuDigent, Baidu (Hong Kong) Limited, IQM Inc., Smaato, Trackonomics). Each company that appears controlled by another organization is counted once, under the main category of the technologies detected from it on this homepage or, when none was, the category recorded from the company's own page (marked reviewed) or else the one it is usually detected as on other published homepages (marked as such); unclassified: none of these.

### Third parties (70)

- Google Cloud: 72 requests to doubleclick.net, google.com, googlesyndication.com, googletagmanager.com, adtrafficquality.google, googleadservices.com, googletagservices.com; DoubleClick Floodlight, DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP), Google AdSense, Google Analytics, Google Publisher Tag, Google Tag Manager
- PubMatic: 35 requests to pubmatic.com; PubMatic
- Amazon: 17 requests to amazon-adsystem.com; Amazon Advertising
- Magnite, Inc.: 16 requests to rubiconproject.com, tremorhub.com; Rubicon Project
- Amazon Web Services: 13 requests to awswaf.com, on.aws; AWS WAF Bot Control
- Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC: 13 requests to media.net; Media.net
- Integral Ad Science, Inc.: 12 requests to adsafeprotected.com; Integral Ad Science
- Yahoo: 11 requests to yahoo.com
- The Trade Desk, Inc.: 9 requests to adsrvr.org; theTradeDesk
- FreeWheel: 8 requests to bidr.io, fwmrm.net
- Index Exchange Inc.: 8 requests to casalemedia.com, indexww.com; Index Exchange
- TikTok: 8 requests to tiktok.com; TikTok Pixel
- DoubleVerify: 7 requests to doubleverify.com
- Snap: 7 requests to snapchat.com
- TripleLift: 6 requests to 3lift.com; TripleLift
- BidSwitch GmbH: 5 requests to bidswitch.net
- LinkedIn: 5 requests to linkedin.com, licdn.com; Linkedin Insight Tag
- LiveRamp: 5 requests to rlcdn.com
- Nexxen: 5 requests to turn.com, 1rx.io
- OpenX: 5 requests to openx.net
- X Corp.: 5 requests to t.co, twitter.com, ads-twitter.com; Twitter Ads
- Adelaide Metrics Inc: 4 requests to a47b.com
- Adobe: 4 requests to everesttech.net, demdex.net
- Criteo: 4 requests to criteo.com
- LiveIntent: 4 requests to liadm.com
- Meta: 4 requests to facebook.com, facebook.net; Facebook Pixel 2.9.419
- Opera Software Ireland Limited (Opera): 4 requests to opera.com
- Permutive: 4 requests to permutive.app, prmutv.co; Permutive
- Whaleco Inc. (Temu): 4 requests to temu.com
- Xandr: 4 requests to adnxs.com
- Basis Technologies (Basis; formerly Centro): 3 requests to sitescout.com
- Blis Global Limited: 3 requests to blismedia.com
- Comscore: 3 requests to scorecardresearch.com
- DeepIntent: 3 requests to deepintent.com
- Epsilon: 3 requests to dotomi.com
- Equativ: 3 requests to smartadserver.com
- Hotjar: 3 requests to hotjar.com, hotjar.io; Hotjar
- Media Force: 3 requests to mfadsrvr.com
- Outbrain: 3 requests to outbrain.com
- Quantcast: 3 requests to quantserve.com
- RTB House: 3 requests to creativecdn.com
- Tapad, Inc.: 3 requests to tapad.com
- ADman Interactive S.L.U.: 2 requests to admanmedia.com
- Adform: 2 requests to adform.net
- Exponential Interactive, Inc. (VDX.tv): 2 requests to tribalfusion.com
- Neustar, Inc. (TransUnion): 2 requests to agkn.com
- PulsePoint: 2 requests to contextweb.com
- Snap Inc.: 2 requests to sc-static.net; Snap Pixel
- SparkV International Inc: 2 requests to rtbwise.com
- StackAdapt: 2 requests to stackadapt.com
- Viant Technology: 2 requests to ipredictive.com
- Zeta Global: 2 requests to rfihub.com
- AdTheorent: 1 request to adentifi.com
- Aniview: 1 request to aniview.com
- ArcSpan Technologies, Inc.: 1 request to p7cloud.net
- AuDigent: 1 request to ad.gt
- Baidu: 1 request to mediagotechnology.com
- Baidu (Hong Kong) Limited: 1 request to mediago.io
- IQM Inc.: 1 request to iqm.com
- Lotame: 1 request to crwdcntrl.net
- MediaMath: 1 request to mathtag.com
- OnAudience Ltd: 1 request to onaudience.com
- OneTag Limited: 1 request to onetag-sys.com
- Parse.ly: 1 request to parsely.com
- Semasio GmbH: 1 request to semasio.net
- Simpli.fi: 1 request to simpli.fi
- Smaato: 1 request to smaato.net
- Taboola: 1 request to taboola.com
- TikTok: 1 request to tiktokw.us; TikTok Pixel
- Trackonomics: 1 request to trackonomics.net

### Unknown (16)

Domains not identified yet: conde.digital, cognitivlabs.com, condenastdigital.com, planebasin.com, merequartz.com, mxptint.net, rqtrk.eu, bfmio.com, ctnsnet.com, marketiq.com, rtactivate.com, sail-horizon.com, sail-personalize.com, smartadhi.com, tracookiepixel.xyz, trx-hub.com

### First party (1)

- Ars Technica: 62 requests to arstechnica.net, arstechnica.com; Admiral, Alpine.js 3.15.10, Boomerang, HSTS, MySQL, Open Graph, OpenX, PHP, Parse.ly, Prebid 11.39.0, Priority Hints, The SEO Framework, WordPress, comScore, core-js 3.32.2, jQuery 3.7.1, reCAPTCHA, web-vitals

27 tracked companies loaded by the homepage are not in Ars Technica's subprocessor list. A website can use a service without it processing customer data.

## Subprocessor of (0)

No tracked vendor lists it.

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