Affiliate disclosure

The current position

No affiliate agreements, no commission, no paid placements, and nothing sold. The outbound links go to each casino’s own front page with no tracking attached, and they carry rel="nofollow" rather than rel="sponsored", because calling a link sponsored when nobody is paying for it would be its own small lie.

Why commission can’t reach the recommendations

This is the part worth reading, because “our rankings are independent” is something every affiliate site says.

• Commission lives in one file, src/affiliate/registry.ts. The recommendation engine, in src/engine/, does not import it — not a flag that could be switched, an absent import.
• No casino profile has a field for commission, partner status or payout. There is nowhere for that data to sit in the objects the scoring code reads.
• Whether a casino has a deal with us is not one of the published rules, so it cannot exclude anyone or move anyone up.
• A test runs the full set of fixtures, changes every commission figure, runs them again, and fails if a single result differs. A second test reads the import graph and fails if anything under src/engine/ or src/data/ ever imports the registry.
• Casinos with no commercial relationship stay eligible on identical terms — which is currently all of them.

What we won’t do

• Hide a drawback because a casino pays us. Every card carries one, partner or not.
• Use countdown timers, fake scarcity, or “claim your bonus” button language.
• Preselect a commercially convenient answer in the finder. Nothing is preselected.
• Present a recommendation as community consensus, or invent a quote from a player.
• Publish a permanent “best overall” casino. The top slot is the most valuable thing an affiliate site can sell, and there isn’t one here to sell.

If this changes

If we take a commercial deal, the disclosure above the results changes wording automatically, the links become rel="sponsored", and this page lists the partner. None of that alters the scoring, and the tests described above are what keeps that true rather than our word for it.