Fine print
Affiliate links
FlipLab's two income streams, how to tell a paid link from a plain one, and why nobody can buy their way onto a shortlist.
The short version: some links on FlipLab can earn the site a commission, you never pay more because of them, and nobody can buy a recommendation.
How an affiliate link works
Some links to products, tools and services are affiliate links. Buy or sign up after clicking one and the seller may pay FlipLab a commission. Your price is the same as it would be if you’d gone straight to the seller.
How they’re marked
Under the hood, each affiliate link is tagged rel="sponsored", the label search engines use for paid links. A guide that contains affiliate links also says so in a short notice before the article starts.
No paid shortcuts
Nobody gets onto a FlipLab shortlist by paying. A commission doesn’t move a verdict, change a ranking or touch the flip math. If a tool, platform or service eats too much of your profit, the guide says so, whether there’s a commission on the table or not.
Ads
You may also see ads on FlipLab. Advertisers don’t pick what we cover or how we judge it, and an ad hanging next to a guide isn’t us vouching for it.
Cookies from partners
Affiliate partners may set their own cookies when you click one of their links. The privacy policy explains how that works.