Editorial Disclosure
This page states how Privacy Ranker makes money, how its articles are produced, and what does and does not affect what it publishes. It is deliberately short, because everything on it has to be true.
How this site is funded
This site currently has no active affiliate or referral relationship with any provider it ranks: no link on this site carries a referral or tracking parameter. If that changes, the affected articles will state it on the page and this section will name the program. Providers that run no referral program at all are covered on exactly the same basis as those that do.
There is no sponsored content, no paid placement, no display advertising, and no newsletter sponsorship. No vendor pays to appear here, and no vendor has been given sight of an article before publication.
Accuracy comes before revenue. Where a commercial relationship and an honest reading of the published evidence point in different directions, the evidence decides the conclusion and the relationship is disclosed. Rankings and comparisons on this site are built from published audits, provider documentation and technical specifications, not from hands-on testing.
How articles are produced
Articles are researched from primary sources: vendor and project documentation, published standards and specifications, release notes, advisories, and measurements published by the people who took them. Drafts are produced with AI assistance and then edited against those sources before publication.
Articles are published under the Privacy Ranker Editorial byline. That is an editorial desk, not a named individual, and this site does not attribute its work to invented people with invented credentials. No article here claims hands-on lab testing, benchmarking, or first-hand measurement, and none should be read as a report of something this site physically tested. Where a number comes from a datasheet or someone else's measurement, the article says whose.
What influences coverage
- What readers of this topic are actually trying to find out
- Material changes to the software, hardware, or standards being covered
- Whether a primary source exists that is good enough to write from
What does not influence coverage
- Whether a vendor runs an affiliate or referral program
- What a program pays, where an affiliate link exists at all
- Whether a vendor has contacted this site
- Whether a topic is convenient for search traffic
Review samples and vendor relationships
This site does not accept review units, hardware loans, free licences, or gifts, and no article here is written from a vendor-supplied sample. It is not owned by, funded by, or operated by any of the vendors, projects, or platforms it covers.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, email hello@privacyranker.com with the page and the specific claim. Substantive corrections are made on the affected page rather than quietly removed. This site does not publish a separate correction log, and this page will not pretend otherwise.
Contact
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