The short version: when you click through one of our outbound links and sign up for a paid plan, the VPN provider pays us a commission. The price you pay is identical to going direct. Commissions do not change our rankings, and we never accept payment to feature, promote, or boost a provider.
How affiliate funding works here
Independent media has to be paid for somewhere. VpnTrackr is funded by affiliate commissions instead of display advertising, sponsorships, or a paywall. When a reader clicks a tracked link and ultimately purchases a subscription, the provider pays us a referral fee. That fee never comes out of your pocket.
Every outbound affiliate link on this site is marked with rel="sponsored noopener nofollow" and opens in a new tab. We follow the FTC’s endorsement guidelines, the UK CMA’s online-review guidance, and India’s ASCI influencer code.
The firewall between funding and rankings
Three structural rules keep commissions away from the rubric:
- One rubric, every provider.The same 100-point methodology is applied to providers who pay us and providers who don’t. Several VPNs we cover have no affiliate programme at all.
- The scorer doesn’t see the payouts.The lab measurements and the commercial relationships are tracked separately. Whoever runs a test doesn’t know which provider pays what.
- No paid placement, no rank-buying.We turn down sponsorship, “featured listing” deals, and any partnership that would alter editorial order. We have walked away from offers larger than our annual revenue. We will again.
What this means for you
You can read every review with the assumption that the rank reflects what the lab measured, not what the provider paid. If you would rather avoid our affiliate links entirely, you can type the provider’s URL into your browser directly — the signup experience is identical.
What an affiliate relationship does not affect
- The numbers in the score breakdown (speed, privacy, streaming, value).
- The contents of pros and cons lists.
- Whether a provider is included in a use-case ranking.
- The order of our hub indexes or the homepage chart.
- Whether we publish a critical review or report a security incident.
If you think we got something wrong
If a rank, score, or claim on this site looks off — or you suspect commercial bias anywhere on a page — write to the editorial inbox. We publish corrections with a public change log, including the dates the original copy was wrong.
This disclosure was last updated 2026-05-18. It is a plain-English summary of how we operate and is not legal advice. The operating entity reserves the right to amend it; the current version is always at this URL.