Affiliate Disclosure

Current status

QuietWatts currently earns nothing. No affiliate programme is active, no commission is being paid, and no company has given me hardware, money, or anything else in exchange for coverage.

This page is generated from the site's partner registry at build time, so it reflects the state of the site as of the most recent deploy rather than whenever someone last remembered to edit it.

How the links work

Outbound links to retailers and services are routed through a /go/ path on this domain, which redirects to the merchant. That counts clicks without third-party trackers and lets a programme be swapped in one place instead of edited into every article. Those links carry rel="sponsored nofollow" and are excluded from search engines. Routing a link that way says nothing about whether it earns anything, and the section above is the honest answer to that question.

What money never buys

Benchmark numbers come from the harness described on the methodology page, and they get published whatever they say. No partner sees a result before publication, and no partner can request a change to a score, a ranking, or a verdict. If a product I earn commission on performs badly, the article says so.

I would rather sell a newsletter or video sponsorship than a review. Any sponsored placement gets labelled as one, in the place you meet it and not only on this page. I do not accept payment for reviews, rankings, or inclusion in a comparison.

What actually gets tested

Hardware I own is described as hardware I own. Anything I have not run myself is labelled research rather than testing, and no performance figure is published for hardware that has not been through the harness. Figures that have been through it are on the benchmark database.

The legal part

This disclosure is provided under the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's guidance on endorsements and testimonials, which requires that any material connection between a publisher and a seller be disclosed clearly and close to the recommendation. That is why a notice appears at the top of every monetized article rather than only on this page.

Questions about any of this are welcome, so get in touch.