Who pays for this

The money

This site earns from VPS and broker advertising and affiliate links. Sign up through one of those and I may get paid.

That’s it. That’s the whole business model.

Why I don’t review brokers

Because they pay me. A site cannot credibly rank the companies funding it, and every review site that’s tried has ended up as a leaderboard sorted by commission rate.

So rather than publish broker rankings and ask you to believe I’m the honest exception: I review EAs. Brokers and VPS providers advertise. Those two lists don’t overlap. If I ever start reviewing brokers, I’ll drop the broker money first and say so loudly.

What the money doesn’t buy

• No advertiser sees a review before you do.
• No advertiser can commission, delay, soften or kill a review.
• No EA vendor pays me anything, in any form. No affiliate deals, no commission, nothing. Links to vendor sales pages are never affiliate links and always carry rel="nofollow".
• Nobody can pay to have a review removed or edited. I fix things because they’re wrong, not because someone asked nicely with money.

Ads

Ads are labelled and kept visually separate from what I write. Nothing that looks like editorial, nothing inside review text. If you can’t tell whether something is an ad, I’ve failed and you should tell me.

The pseudonym

I write under a fake name. Not to duck accountability — because taking apart someone’s $500 robot in public tends to attract people with time on their hands.

It doesn’t make me less accountable, it just makes me harder to doorstep. How I do this is written down. The scores are sums you can check. Every finding has a receipt with a date on it. If I get something wrong, that’s checkable by anyone, and I’d rather you check than take my word for it.

Contact

Corrections and complaints go to the address in the footer. I read everything.