vice.com

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vice.com

VICE - VICE is the definitive guide to enlightening information.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.

vice.com

One of the first images collected of this website on 25 Jan 1999

Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 21:49Unclaimed

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Truth score

Truth score 71 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied

71/ 100

High truth signals

Business details

Category: News and magazines
Founded: 1994
Sells: Subscription or membership
Sells to: The public
Licensed trade: No licence normally needed
Domain age: 29 years
Address: 49 S. 2nd Street Brooklyn, NY 11249
Email address: sales@vice.com
Phone number: +1 877-273-8550
Contact page: Not found
Website: vice.com
Social media: Not found

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

SiteReviewsRating

SmartCustomer· Read 12 November 2026· 15 reviews· 2.4 out of 5 stars

Total152.8 out of 5 stars

Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a Trustpilot page, which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here.

Customer satisfactionMostly dissatisfied· Low confidence· From 15 reviews on 1 independent review site

App experienceInsufficient evidence· No app ratings found

Summary

Is vice.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 71 out of 100, high truth signals: 6 public checks clear, 1 to be cautious about, 1 not found, 2 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied, low confidence.

We read 3 of its pages: about, terms and privacy. Its website address was registered 29 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. Be cautious: its 15 reviews on SmartCustomer average only 2.4 stars out of 5. We could not find social media profiles.

Positives

We read 3 of its pages · about, terms and privacy.
Its website address was registered 29 years ago.
No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Be cautious

A low number of independent reviews (15 on SmartCustomer), but it falls short with only 2.4 stars out of 5.

Not found

Social presence information was not found from our checks.

Our technical team has been informed.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

What they offer

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.

— VICE, in their own words

SourcesIts homepage

How to check if vice.com is legit

To check if vice.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about vice.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.

Who they are

Company detailsBased in the US; serves the US; founded in 1994 (Wikipedia)

Country

Where the company is based: US
Why we believe that: the site's structured data states its country, its terms are governed by the laws of UNITED STATES, its phone number starts +1, its postcode is a US zip code
Which countries the company serves: US
Why we believe that: $ prices on its homepage, it publishes pages in 19 languages

From Wikipedia

Type (Wikipedia): limited liability company
Industry: mass media
Founded: 1994

SourcesWikipedia

Domain registrationIts website address was registered 29 years ago

Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else

Domain age: 29 years
Domain transfer lock enabled: Yes

SourcesICANN Lookup

Website detailsWe read 3 of its pages: about, terms and privacy

Company contact email is available

HTTPS enabled: Yes
Contact phone number found: +1 877-273-8550
Contact page found: Not found
Hosting company: Automattic, Inc

What its pages say

In their own words: “Coming to you from around the world, VICE Digital’s team strives to capture the people at the heart of stories, and focus on the ideas, issues, and context that other outlets miss. You can find our award-winning work online ; on YouTube ; in a print magazine ; in newsletters , and on Facebook , Twitter , Snapchat and Instagram . If you’re interested in pitching us a story idea, keep reading.”

SourcesHomepage About page Terms page Privacy page

Search engines and AILets in every search engine and AI tool

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All allowed

Google Search: Allowed by defaultGooglebot
Bing: Allowed by defaultBingbot

AI training

All allowed

OpenAI: Allowed by defaultGPTBot
Anthropic: Allowed by defaultClaudeBot
Google AI: Allowed by defaultGoogle-Extended
Apple AI: Allowed by defaultApplebot-Extended
Common Crawl: Allowed by defaultCCBot
Meta: Allowed by defaultmeta-externalagent
ByteDance (TikTok): Allowed by defaultBytespider

AI answers

All allowed

ChatGPT search: Allowed by defaultOAI-SearchBot
ChatGPT: Allowed by defaultChatGPT-User
Claude search: Allowed by defaultClaude-SearchBot
Claude: Allowed by defaultClaude-User
Perplexity: Allowed by defaultPerplexityBot

Sourcesrobots.txt

Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaintsRated 2.4 stars out of 5 from 15 reviews on SmartCustomer

Platform	Rating	Reviews
Trustpilot	Unknown	Unknown
SmartCustomer	2.4 out of 5 stars	15
Total	2.8 out of 5 stars	15

Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months

Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
It is among the 20,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 50,000 sites
First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier
Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 24
Traffic pattern: sustained
Rank jump in the last 12 months: none
Rank drop in the last 12 months: none

Cloudflare Radar

Popularity across the internet: top 20,000 sites

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up vice.com, by country, over the last 2 days.

Over 50%
5 to 50%
1 to 5%
0.2 to 1%
Under 0.2%
None seen

1Singapore30.3%
2United States25.3%
3Finland7.0%
4Germany4.9%
5United Kingdom4.9%
6Netherlands3.1%
7Lithuania3.0%
8Latvia2.4%
9Japan2.0%
10Hong Kong1.9%

Top 10 of 55 countries.

SourcesChrome UX Report Cloudflare Radar

Web history and authorityThe Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 27 years ago

Website archive history: 27 years

SourcesFirst archived copy

Social presenceWe could not check how big its social media following is: the check ran out of time.

What data this site collects about you

What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data

Collects where you are.: “Internet or another similar network activityWe collect details about your visits to our Sites and information generated in the course of using our Sites (including the timing, frequency and pattern of service use) including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, the resources that you access, and how you reached the Sites.”
Says you can ask it to delete your data.: “Right to Delete – You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we have collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions.”

SourceIts privacy policy

Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, TikTok Pixel, LinkedIn Insight Tag and X (Twitter) Pixel

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Analytics: Counts your visits and what you look at.
Google Tag Manager: Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.
Meta Pixel: Tells Facebook and Instagram what you do on its site, for adverts.
TikTok Pixel: Tells TikTok what you do on its site, for adverts.
LinkedIn Insight Tag: Tells LinkedIn what you do on its site, for adverts.
X (Twitter) Pixel: Tells X (Twitter) what you do on its site, for adverts.

SourceIts homepage

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.

Malware or phishing threat status: None found

SourcesGoogle Web Risk

Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

SourcesHave I Been Pwned

Domain and email securityIts email is protected: mail forged in its name is blocked

MX records: Yes
SPF record: Yes
DKIM key: Yes
DMARC record: Yes
DMARC policy: reject

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No
Certificate issuer: Let's Encrypt
Certificate type: DV
Certificate expires: 9 Feb 2027

Hosting

Nameservers: ns-1136.awsdns-14.org
ns-1767.awsdns-28.co.uk
ns-409.awsdns-51.com
ns-851.awsdns-42.net
Address: 192.0.66.177

SourcesIts DNS records

Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS recordNot added yet+3 possible

What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.
When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.
Points: 0 of 3 added

Sourcevice.com's DNS records

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Email at its own domainNot added yet+1 possible

What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.
When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.
Points: 0 of 1 added

SourceTruth Signal's own records

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Lets our checker read itNot added yet+1 possible

What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.
When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.
Points: 0 of 1 added

Sourcevice.com/robots.txt

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Points added to its truth score0 of 5

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