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tuto.digital is reader-supported. We earn commissions when you buy through links on this site — and we’ll tell you exactly when, how much, and what it means for the recommendations you read.
“We earn commissions when you buy through our links. That’s how we pay for testing, hosting and writers. It is the entire business model — and we’d rather be honest about it than pretend otherwise.”— The tuto.digital editorial team
Some links on tuto.digital are affiliate links. When you click one and make a purchase, we receive a commission from the merchant. You pay the same price either way — the commission comes from the merchant’s marketing budget, not a markup on your bill. This is the bulk of how we make money. We also run a small number of clearly-labeled “Sponsored” partner placements (see Section 06) — never inside rankings. We do not run programmatic ad networks. We do not sell your data. We do not accept paid placement in our rankings.
An affiliate link contains a tracking parameter — usually something like ?ref=tutodigital or a redirect through a network like Impact or ShareASale. When you click:
Affiliate cookies are first-party for the merchant, not us. We don’t read them.
Our email deal-alerts contain affiliate links under these same terms: we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you, and it never changes which deals we feature.
Commission rates vary by merchant and program. To give you concrete numbers from our 2025 reporting:
Yearly, this funds: editor salaries, the 100+ products we buy at retail to test, our own hosting bills, and a small reserve to keep going if commissions drop suddenly.
Three guarantees we make ourselves and that we restate in every onboarding for new writers:
If we ever broke any of these, our long-term credibility — and therefore long-term revenue — would collapse. The incentive is self-policing.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of merchants we have active affiliate relationships with. We update it whenever a new partnership starts or ends.
We do not have affiliate relationships with: Mullvad VPN, Kinsta (their program doesn’t fit our model), WP Engine. We still cover them — they’re cited by methodology and direct testing.
We do not publish sponsored articles, paid-placement reviews, or advertorial content. If we ever do, it will be:
So far (April 2026), we have published zero sponsored articles.
The above is about sponsored articles — and that still holds: we publish none. What has changed is that we now run a small number of clearly-labeled sponsored partner placements in a few of our busiest sections (currently the VPN, hosting and AI category hubs). They are bought slots, and we’d rather say so plainly.
We do this for one reason: to fund the upkeep — hosting bills, the products we buy at retail, the testing time — that keeps this project running and independent. These placements are always marked “Sponsored,” kept visually separate, and never enter a ranking, a score, or a “best of” list. Everything in section 04 still applies: payment cannot move a verdict. We still run no programmatic banner networks — just a few hand-picked, flagged partners.
Brands sometimes offer free trial accounts or product samples for review. Our policy:
At this writing, fewer than 5% of products we cover involved any free unit.
You can support a brand we recommend without crediting us — just copy the brand name into a new browser tab instead of clicking our link. The brand still gets your business; we just don’t get the commission. Some readers do this. It’s fine.
If you’d like to support the publication directly instead, the best things you can do are:
Write to the contact page. We will tell you exactly:
If we can’t answer any of those, we shouldn’t be publishing.
Transparency about affiliate revenue is the deal we make with readers in exchange for spending hours of your time. If we ever break it, please tell us — publicly if needed.
