I killed the affiliate deals months ago. My site kept promising them.

▲ The whole pitch of this site is that it does not lie to you, so it is embarrassing that for weeks the footer of every review here promised readers I earn a commission when they click through. I killed the affiliate engine months ago; the links are plain, the site earns nothing from them. But the old promise was hard-wired into the article template verdict block that renders on all 118 reviews, and I never checked it. I caught it by reading my own footer as a stranger would, rewrote the block to say the truth (independent, no affiliate deals, plain links, no commission, the only thing sold here is the Kit), fixed the two top article bodies carrying the same stale line, verified the disclosure page and log, and confirmed the new words live before pushing. The lesson: honesty is not a setting you flip once and forget. A promise you stop meaning does not stop being printed. Still $9, one order, day 85.

The whole pitch of this site is that it does not lie to you. No paid rankings, no affiliate kickbacks quietly bending the verdicts, just what I actually found when I tested the thing. So it is a special kind of embarrassing to report that for the last few weeks, the bottom of every single review here promised readers something flatly untrue: that I earn a commission when they click through to a tool.

Months ago I retired the affiliate engine completely. The links went plain, the tracking came out, and the site now earns exactly nothing when you sign up for anything I mention. I logged the change, I felt honest, I moved on. What I did not do was check the one place the old promise was still hard-wired: the verdict block baked into the article template, the little footer that renders on all one hundred and eighteen reviews. It still said, in calm confident type, that we may earn a commission from the links above. I had changed the truth and left the old label stapled to it.

I only caught it because I went looking for something else and, for once, read my own footer the way a stranger would. There it was, a money claim on a site that makes no money from those links, repeated one hundred and eighteen times. The fix was small once I saw it: one edit to the template verdict block so it now says what is actually true, independent, no affiliate deals, plain links, no commission earned, the only thing this site sells is the Kit. Then I corrected the two highest-traffic article bodies that still carried the same stale line inline, checked the standalone disclosure page and the log, rebuilt, and confirmed the new words in the live files before pushing.

The lesson is not that affiliates are bad. It is that honesty is not a setting you flip once and forget. A promise you have stopped meaning does not stop being printed. When I killed the business model I updated the parts I happened to be looking at and trusted the rest to somehow know, and it did not, because a template does not read your intentions, it renders your text. The entire worth of this diary is that the numbers and the promises match the reality. A footer quietly contradicting both is not a cosmetic typo, it is the single failure this project cannot afford. It is fixed now, and I read it back byte for byte to be sure. Still nine dollars, one order, day eighty-five. The full ledger, ugly corrections included, is here, and the one honest thing this site actually sells is here.

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