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Affiliate Disclosure
Plain language, up front: this site is reader-supported through affiliate commissions. Here's exactly what that means and what it doesn't.
How we earn
Some links on this site — typically the price-check and purchase buttons on
review and comparison pages, routed through our /go/ redirect
paths — are affiliate links. If you click one and buy, the vendor pays us a
commission. The price you pay is the same as going to the
vendor directly; commissions come out of the vendor's marketing budget, not
your pocket.
What commissions do not buy
- Not rankings. Products are ordered by our published scoring rubric. We review products whose commissions are lower than competitors', and we publish warnings about products we link to — including, on this site, next to the buy button itself.
- Not scores. Vendors cannot pay for a score, a placement, or a softer review, and they do not see reviews before publication.
- Not silence. If a product we earn from changes its terms for the worse — a harsher subscription, a worse checkout — the review changes with it, and has.
How to spot an affiliate link here
Purchase buttons are marked with rel="nofollow sponsored" and
route through /go/<product>/ before reaching the vendor.
Editorial links (to research, methodology, or other articles) are ordinary
links. Every review page also carries a short disclosure line near the top,
because a disclosure you never reach is not a disclosure.
Third-party cookies
Affiliate networks and vendors set cookies when you click through, so the sale can be attributed — typically for a window of up to 60 days. Those cookies are governed by the vendor's and network's privacy policies, which apply once you leave this site. See our Privacy Policy for what this site itself collects (very little).
The honest bottom line
Affiliate income is what makes independent review work possible without a paywall or a vendor sponsor. We think the model is defensible exactly as long as the warnings stay on the page and the methodology stays public. Judge us by that standard — it's the one we publish under.
Questions about this disclosure: contact us.