How We Earn Money
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Buying through our links never costs you more. If you follow our link to a provider we work with and then subscribe, that provider pays us a share of the sale.
Commission is the only way we make money. No provider pays us for a review, a better score or a place in a list.
What commission does not change
- Reviews. We do not accept money to write a review, change one, or soften what we found. If a VPN failed a test, the review says so.
- Rankings. Every list on the site is ordered by data, not by who pays us. How that works is below.
- What we test. We decide which VPNs to test and what to test them on.
Links to providers that pay us commission are marked as sponsored in the page code, and every page carries a short note about commission at the top. Links to providers we have no arrangement with go to our own review, not to their checkout.
Who pays for the testing
So far, every VPN in our current test round has been tested on an account its provider gave us free of charge. Each review says so next to those results. A free account does not change how we test or what we write.
How our lists are ordered
Our home page list and comparison pages are ordered by a calculation from published figures: price, refund period, countries with servers and devices per account. On the home page, VPNs we have tested in the last 90 days come first. Each of those pages prints its weights, so you can check the working.
Smaller tables in our guides keep the order of the main comparison. Commission plays no part in the calculation, and a provider can move up or down as its prices change.
Our testing methodology explains where those figures come from and how we run our own tests.
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