Affiliate disclosure

We use affiliate links

Many pages on shabitools contain affiliate links. This includes links served through the Admitad affiliate network and links routed through our own /go/ redirects. If you click one of these links and then buy something, we may earn a commission. That commission comes out of the retailer’s margin — it costs you nothing extra, and you pay exactly the same price you would have paid going to the store directly.

Money never buys a verdict

This is the part that matters most. Affiliate commissions never influence our rankings, ratings, pros and cons, or buy/skip verdicts. We do not move a tool up a list because it pays more, and we do not soften criticism of a product we earn a commission on. Our editorial conclusions are formed first; the links are added afterward to whichever retailers carry the tool. To keep things clear, links we are compensated for are marked with the rel="sponsored" attribute.

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We also show display advertising through Google AdSense. These ads are served by Google and are kept separate from our editorial content. Advertisers cannot edit, approve, or influence our reviews, and the presence of an ad on a page has no bearing on what that page recommends.

How to spot an affiliate link

You can identify the links we may earn from throughout the site. They typically appear as:

• “Check price at…” buttons on reviews and roundups that send you to a retailer to see the current price.
• “Stores we link to” strips that list the merchants carrying a given tool.
• Store pages that group together the retailers we partner with.

If you ever have a question about whether a particular link is an affiliate link, assume any outbound “buy” or “check price” link may be one, and feel free to email us. We would rather over-disclose than leave you guessing.