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Fair points — and honestly, the skepticism is warranted in this space. To be transparent: our news side does work with partners and includes press releases, so no pretense there. But our buying guides and product reviews are a different story — those are based on hands-on testing, not affiliate-optimized roundups. Roughly ~45% of our product recommendations do carry affiliate links, but our rule is simple: we only recommend products we'd actually use ourselves. A good example is our top VPN pick being Mullvad — they don't even run an affiliate program, so there's no financial incentive behind that recommendation, just the product being genuinely good. We won't recommend something we wouldn't use. That's the line we hold.