Affiliate disclosure
How Bordermark makes money — and why it never changes a country's tier or a recommendation.
Bordermark is reader-first and independent. This page explains exactly how we make money, because trust is the only thing a VPN-law guide has to sell.
The short version
Some links to VPN providers on this site are affiliate links. If you click one and subscribe, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. That commission never influences which country sits in which tier, what the law says, or which provider we recommend. Facts and legal status are decided before any link is placed.
Which links are affiliate links
Affiliate links point through our /go/ redirect — for example a link to a provider's site. Any such link is marked as an affiliate link near where it appears and carries a 'sponsored nofollow' attribute. Links to laws, regulators, news organisations and research (our sources) are ordinary links and earn us nothing.
The providers we recommend for free
The clearest proof that our commissions don't drive our advice: we regularly recommend providers that pay us nothing. Mullvad runs no affiliate program at all, and Astrill has one we haven't joined — yet both come up in our China guide because, for that specific problem, they're the honest pick. We would rather be right than paid.
Prices and terms
VPN pricing changes constantly and is region- and term-specific, so we avoid quoting exact live prices and tell you to check the current price on the provider's own site. We also never promise that any provider will work in a given censored country forever — those results shift, and we date our claims accordingly. Questions? Email [email protected].