Affiliate disclosure
Somebody pays for every page on the internet. On this site the answer is short: the operator's partner programme does. This page explains exactly how that works, what it changes for you, and what it is not allowed to change.
The mechanism in plain terms
Certain links on this site carry a tracking parameter. If you follow one and later open an account with the operator, the partner programme records that the visit originated here and pays a commission — either a share of the operator's net revenue from that account, or a one-off amount, depending on the agreement in force. No commission is paid for the click itself, and none is paid for reading.
The reader pays nothing for this. The registration form, the bonus terms, the cashier limits and the withdrawal timings are identical whether you arrive through a link on this site, through a search engine or by typing the address by hand. An affiliate link is a referral marker, not a discount code and not a surcharge.
What the arrangement is not permitted to do
- Change the verdict. The home page states that the operator does not appear on the whitelist of the German supervisory authority, that OASIS and the LUGAS deposit ceiling do not reach it, and that the wagering requirement is demanding. Those sentences reduce conversions. They stay.
- Reorder the sections. Regulatory status comes before the bonus table because that is the order in which the information matters, not because of what pays better.
- Hide the tax comparison. The absence of the 5.3 percent stake levy is presented together with the absence of statutory protection, in the same paragraph, every time.
- Invent credentials. No licence number appears on this site unless it can be looked up in a public register.
Why the disclosure exists at all
Partly because German and European rules on commercial communication require advertising to be recognisable as such, and a page that earns commission on a referral is commercial communication however carefully it is written. Partly because the alternative is worse: a reader who discovers the funding model on their own has every reason to distrust everything they read beforehand. Stating it once, clearly, at the start of the relationship is cheaper than losing it later.
How to read a site that earns commission
The useful test is not whether a site is monetised — almost all of them are — but whether it ever writes anything against its own commercial interest. Look for concrete numbers rather than adjectives, for named drawbacks rather than a token cons list containing could have more games, and for claims that can be checked somewhere other than on the site making them. Applied here that means: the whitelist entry is checkable, the wagering arithmetic is reproducible, and the payment timings are quoted from the operator's own cashier.
Applied elsewhere it means the same thing. A guide that calls every operator excellent is not a guide, it is a shop window with an editorial font.
What is not sold
No advertising space is sold on these pages beyond the partner relationship described above. No sponsored articles are published, no paid guest posts are accepted, and no third party is given the opportunity to review a text before it appears. Reader data is not sold to anyone; what is collected and why is set out under privacy.
Related reading
The editorial approach and the criteria behind the assessments are described under about this site. The person responsible for the texts is introduced under Malte Brenninger. The rules governing use of the site are collected under terms of use. And if the reason for reading has become less academic, responsible gambling lists the support that costs nothing and pays no commission to anybody.
One closing note, because it is the sentence that matters most on a page about money: gambling is a paid form of entertainment with a built-in mathematical disadvantage for the player. Nothing on this site, funded or otherwise, changes that arithmetic.