Some links here pay us. None of them buy a verdict.

What the links are

Product pages carry links to retailers, including the Amazon Associates programme and other affiliate networks. If you follow one and buy something, a small share of that sale goes to ArabicaDB. The price you pay is identical either way.

Why it does not move the rankings

Order and verdicts on this site are produced by an evidence pipeline that reads public coffee discussions. That pipeline has no access to commission rates, and no knowledge of which products even have a merchant link attached — links are matched on afterwards, to pages whose conclusions are already fixed.

The practical consequence: plenty of products here are criticised and still carry a buy link, and plenty of well-reviewed gear carries no link at all because no programme covers it. If commissions were steering the content, neither would happen.

What is not for sale

• Placement. No brand can pay to appear, rank higher, or be removed.
• Wording. No brand reviews a page before it goes up.
• Evidence. Nothing is excluded because it is unflattering.

Regional links

Links resolve to the storefront for your country where one exists, so a reader in Germany is not sent to a US listing that will not ship. That redirect is the only thing that happens between the click and the retailer.

Questions about any of this: hello@arabicadb.com.