Where the money comes from, in plain terms

Slot Annotations is free to read because it's funded by affiliate commissions. Several of the operators we compare run partner programmes, and when you click through to one of them and open an account, that operator may pay us a fee. You pay nothing extra — the price and the offer are identical whether you arrive through us or type the address in yourself.

What the links carry

The outbound buttons point to the operator's real website with a tracking tag added to the address — small snippets like btag, affid or clickid. That tag is how a programme knows a visit came from here. We never route you through unrelated redirect domains, and the destination is always the genuine operator site.

Why it doesn't buy a better grade

This is the part that matters. A commission gets an operator a link, not a rating. The A-to-D grades and the order on the homepage come from our own read of each brand against the same criteria — bonus terms, game range, live casino, mobile, studios, licence and support. A site we think is average is graded average, commission or not, and there are plenty of operators with partner programmes we simply don't list because they didn't earn a spot.

Being straight about the trade-off

Any affiliate model creates an incentive to send you somewhere. We'd rather name that openly than pretend it doesn't exist. The counterweight is that our value depends on being useful and honest — a shortlist that pushed people toward bad offers wouldn't be worth reading twice. If you ever feel a recommendation doesn't stack up, the contact page is open.