Affiliate disclosure.
What we earn when you buy something we recommend.
How it works
Many of the product links on The Carabin are affiliate links. When you click one and complete a purchase on the merchant's site, we may earn a commission. The product costs you the same as it would otherwise. The merchant pays a referral fee out of their margin.
What this changes — and what it does not
It does not change which products we choose to feature. Editorial selection is made on merit. We do not accept payment in exchange for coverage. We do not run sponsored loadouts. We do not adjust rankings or omit critique to protect commission.
It does change the unit economics of the publication. Affiliate commissions are how a daily field publication of this scale stays operating without a paywall and without a third party defining the audience for us. The goal is to align our financial incentive with making genuinely useful recommendations: if we recommend something well-suited to our reader, they tend to buy it; we earn; everyone's incentive points in the same direction.
Specific disclosures
Amazon Associates: As an Amazon Associate, The Carabin earns from qualifying purchases. Amazon links carry our Associates tracking tag.
AvantLink, Impact, ShareASale, CJ Affiliate: The Carabin is a publisher within these networks. Links to merchants in these networks are tracked via a redirect through the network so commissions are correctly attributed.
Direct brand partnerships: A small set of premium brands work with us directly outside open affiliate networks. The relationship is disclosed in writing per brand; the editorial standard is identical.
FTC, EU AI Act, and platform policies
This page satisfies the Federal Trade Commission's requirement that affiliate relationships be disclosed clearly and conspicuously to readers. Each piece of content on The Carabin that contains affiliate links also carries an inline disclosure marker. AI-generated imagery is labeled separately per Pinterest policy and the EU AI Act (Article 50, effective August 2026). Cookie usage is privacy-first via Plausible Analytics; we set no third-party tracking cookies of our own.
Questions
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Last revised 2026-05-18