How we make money
Short version: affiliate commissions. Long version: below — including what advertisers can and can't influence.
Affiliate commissions only
When you click an affiliate link on this site and end up buying the product, the vendor pays us a commission. You pay the same price — sometimes less, when we negotiate a reader-exclusive discount. We do not run display ads, sponsored articles, or paid placements.
- Rankings or scores. Position in our comparison tables is decided by our scoring rubric, not commission rate.
- Pre-publication review. Brands never see a draft before it goes live.
- Edits after the fact. We correct factual errors — we don't soften verdicts on request.
- "Best Overall" / "Best Value" badges. These follow the score, not the cheque.
We're honest about the conflict of interest: if every product in a category pays us, we have a financial incentive to recommend something. So when no product is good enough, we say "skip the category" instead of forcing a pick. When commissions differ meaningfully between two products we both rate highly, we disclose it inside the article.
Affiliate links are tagged rel="sponsored nofollow" per Google's guidelines and labelled "Affiliate link" on hover.
See also: Affiliate disclosure · Editorial policy · Corrections policy