Trust & Legal
Affiliate Disclosure
Learn Dark Web currently has zero affiliate links and earns nothing from its recommendations. This page explains what that means, why we disclose it, and what will happen if it ever changes.
The plain answer: there are no affiliate links on this site today. Nothing you click here earns us money, and nothing we recommend earns us a commission.
What an affiliate link is
An affiliate link is a link to a product or service that carries a tracking code. If you click it and buy something, the website that linked you gets a commission — a cut of the sale — from the seller. The price you pay is usually the same, but the recommendation is not neutral: the site has a financial interest in you buying. That is why readers deserve to know about it whenever it exists.
The rule, in plain words
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the United States sets the standard for this in its Endorsement Guides, 16 CFR Part 255. The rule is simple: if there is a material connection between a website and a seller — a commission, a free product, a payment — it must be disclosed clearly and conspicuously, where people cannot miss it. A disclosure buried on another page, in small print, or after the link does not count. Readers must be able to see the connection before they decide to trust the recommendation.
We follow that standard already, even though we currently have nothing to disclose. If affiliate links ever appear here, this page will name them first, and every affected page will carry a visible disclosure before the link — not after it, and not hidden in a footer.
Our promise
- Today: zero affiliate links. No link on this site earns us a commission, and no recommendation is paid for.
- If that changes, this page changes first. The disclosure page will be updated before any affiliate link goes live, saying which programmes we joined and what we earn.
- Every affected page will say so. Any page with an affiliate link will carry a visible disclosure before the first link on the page.
- Money will not change what a page says. A recommendation will never be written to earn a commission. If we cannot recommend a product honestly, we will not recommend it — and we will not take affiliate income on pages about Tor, the dark web, or security research techniques.
No ads, either
At launch the site also carries no advertising. If advertising is added later, it will be clearly separated from our advice, and this page will be updated to say so.
Questions about this disclosure: email [email protected], or see the Contact page.