This page lists brands where one of our founders has a commercial relationship that we firewall in code: we publish the methodology score, but we do not earn affiliate revenue from recommending these brands.
Our founders disclose at /founders that one founder is a co-founder of UFFILIATES.me, an affiliate network for licensed gambling and betting operators. UFFILIATES partner brands overlap with the IndexFair catalogue. Editorial independence requires a structural protection — not an editorial promise — so we firewall the commercial relationship in code.
No brands are currently subject to the firewall. This list is curated by editorial staff and is populated when a UFFILIATES partner relationship overlaps with the IndexFair catalogue.
For each brand listed above, the brand page renders a firewall disclosure block in place of the standard affiliate-tagged Visit-website CTA. The affiliate outbound link is suppressed entirely — there is no path through our site that earns affiliate revenue from a firewalled brand. The methodology composite is computed normally; the firewall is on the commercial relationship, not on the editorial scoring.
The exclusion list is stored as structured rows in our database (brand_affiliate_link) linked to the seeded UFFILIATES affiliate-program row. Membership is changed only via an audit-logged admin action; the audit trail is preserved on remove via soft-close (valid_to) rather than DELETE. To verify the firewall is enforced, open any brand page from the list above and confirm the firewall disclosure block is rendered in place of the affiliate CTA.
valid_to set, row retained). The active list above intentionally excludes those entries.For the founders' conflict-of-interest disclosure, see /founders. For the methodology underlying every published score, see /methodology.