Affiliate Disclosure
Short version: some links on this site earn me a commission, and none of them change what I write. The long version is below, because “trust me” isn’t a policy.
Where things stand today
Right now there are no affiliate links anywhere on this site. Not one. When that changes, it’ll change the way described here, and this page gets updated with it.
What an affiliate link is
It’s a normal link with a tag on the end. If you click it and buy something, the retailer pays me a small percentage. You pay the same price either way — the commission comes out of the retailer’s margin, not your wallet.
The program I expect to use is Amazon Associates. When those links go live, this sentence applies:
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
How you’ll know
Every post that contains an affiliate link carries a disclosure box above the first paragraph — before you read anything, not after. It’s generated automatically from a flag on the post, so it can’t quietly go missing because I forgot to type it.
If you ever find an affiliate link on this site without that box at the top, tell me. That’s a bug, and I’ll fix it.
The part that actually matters
The reason disclosure pages exist is that money bends conclusions. So here’s what I hold myself to:
- I only link hardware I’ve run something on. If a GPU appears in a table on this site, it’s because I measured it, not because it pays well.
- Results that embarrass my own purchases stay up. I’ve published a card I bought losing to one I already owned. That post has the numbers in it, and it isn’t going anywhere.
- No commission rate decides a recommendation. The cheap thing that works wins over the expensive thing that also works, every time.
- “Don’t buy this” is a valid conclusion, and I’ll write it even when the link would have paid.
That last one is the whole test. A site that never tells you to skip a purchase is an advertisement wearing a blog’s clothes.
Ads
This site may also display ads through Google AdSense. Those are served by Google, not chosen by me, and I have no idea which ones you see. Cookie details are on the privacy policy page.
Why bother monetising at all
Hardware costs money and testing costs evenings. A GPU I bought to play games has spent more hours running benchmarks for this site than running games. If ads and affiliate links eventually cover part of that, I get to test more things and write about them.
If they don’t, the posts still go up. The measurements came first and the links came second, and I’d like to keep it in that order.