How this site makes money.

Amazon Associates

Preserving Privacy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.

Which links are affiliate links

Every one of them is on the gear page, and every one is marked. In your browser they look like preservingprivacy.com/go/security-key — a link on our own domain that forwards you to the product listing with our Associates tag attached. In the page's HTML they carry rel="sponsored nofollow noopener", the standard machine- readable signal that a link is paid.

Links to sources, regulators, court filings, tools, and organisations like the EFF are never affiliate links. If a page ever carries a paid link, the disclosure box appears above it — that rule has no exceptions.

What it costs you: nothing

The price is identical whether you use our link or type the product name into Amazon yourself. The commission comes out of the retailer's margin, not your total.

What we can and can't see

When you follow one of these links, Amazon knows you arrived from here and may set its own cookies under its own policy — we have no control over that once you leave. What we receive back is an anonymous, aggregate report: how many items sold and the commission earned. Never your identity, never your order. See the privacy policy for the full picture, including the fact that we run no analytics of our own to correlate any of it with.

The part that actually matters

Commissions do not influence what gets recommended. The gear list is deliberately short, several entries tell you to skip the product, one of them is a free settings change in disguise, and the page ends by saying most privacy work costs nothing. We would rather recommend nothing than recommend something we don't believe in — a privacy site that sells out its readers has no reason to exist.

We also never state prices on this site. Amazon requires price data to be pulled live through their Product Advertising API, and a stale number in our HTML would be both a policy violation and a small lie, so the gear page shows rough cost bands instead and sends you to Amazon for the real figure.

Other programs

There are none today. If that changes — a privacy tool or removal service worth recommending that happens to run a program — it will be disclosed the same way, on this page and in the box above the link, before the link goes live. The support page explains the alternative: reader donations, which come with no strings at all.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, or you think a recommendation reads like it was bought, say so: info@preservingprivacy.com. Real person, real replies.