This page exists so you can judge how much to trust the rest of the site. It covers how we make money, how we evaluate subscriptions, and — importantly — what we don’t do.
How we make money
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Some links on this site are affiliate links, meaning we receive a commission or a flat referral fee if you sign up for something through them. This costs you nothing extra; the price is the same as going direct.
We disclose this at the top of every article that contains an affiliate link, before the link appears.
The conflict of interest, stated plainly
Here is the problem with every “is it worth it” site, including this one: we can earn from some recommendations and not others.
Concretely, as of August 2026:
- Amazon pays us a small referral fee for Prime trials and for streaming services subscribed through Prime Video Channels
- Netflix, Hulu, and Disney pay us nothing, because they run no affiliate programme
- Meal kit companies and most software subscriptions run programmes we have not yet joined
A naive site would quietly recommend whatever pays. We handle it three ways:
- We say who pays us on each page, including when the answer is “nobody.”
- We publish verdicts that cost us money. Our Amazon Prime article tells a large share of readers to cancel. That is the correct advice for those readers, and it is the test of whether a disclosure means anything.
- We never recommend a paid option where the free or cheaper one is right. Our AI subscription guide’s headline advice is to stay on the free tier or pay $5 rather than $20.
If you ever find a recommendation on this site that only makes sense as a way for us to get paid, that’s a bug. Tell us.
What we actually do
We analyse published pricing, plan structures, contract terms, and billing behaviour, and we do the arithmetic that subscription marketing is designed to obscure — break-even points, real per-unit costs once fees are included, and what a service costs across a year rather than a month.
What we don’t do
We do not conduct hands-on testing. You will not find “we tried this for three months” or “in our testing” anywhere on this site, because it wouldn’t be true. Plenty of sites make hands-on claims they haven’t earned. We’d rather be a site that does honest arithmetic than one that pretends to a test lab it doesn’t have.
If that changes — if we start genuinely testing services — we’ll say so explicitly and date it.
We do not accept payment for coverage or for a favourable verdict. No sponsored posts, no paid placement, no “reviewed in partnership with.”
How we handle prices
Prices are the reason this site exists, so we’re specific about them:
- Every article carries the date its prices were verified. Subscription pricing moves constantly; a price without a date is close to useless.
- Non-Amazon prices are exact and checked against the provider at the stated date.
- Amazon’s own prices are given as approximations — “about $140 a year” rather than a precise figure. This is deliberate. Amazon’s Associates terms require exact Amazon prices to be pulled from their API with a retrieval timestamp, and we don’t currently have API access. We’d rather round honestly than publish a precise number that quietly goes stale.
Always confirm the current price with the provider before you buy. We check regularly, but we are not the billing system.
Corrections
We correct errors rather than quietly editing them away. If a price, claim, or calculation on this site is wrong, tell us and we’ll fix it and note the change.
Links
Affiliate links on this site are marked rel="sponsored nofollow" and are not cloaked or redirected — you can see exactly where a link goes before you click it, by hovering over it. We consider link cloaking on a site like this to be a bad practice regardless of what any individual programme permits.