Affiliate disclosure
Some links on this site are partner links. If you open an account with a network through one, native-ads.net may earn a commission, and you pay nothing extra for it. This page states exactly which links those are and what they do not buy.
Which links pay this site
At the time of writing, one network. Every link and button pointing to AdsCompass — the header button, both buttons in the opening block of the native ads reference, the in-text mention in that opening block, and the network's name in the first row of the comparison table — carries tracking parameters and may earn a commission on a new advertiser account. Links to Teads, Taboola, MGID and Revcontent are plain links that earn nothing. Links to the IAB, IAB Tech Lab, the FTC, the text of the Digital Services Act, eMarketer, AdExchanger and the University of Georgia research earn nothing and exist only as citations. Links to other sites about native ads, beyond those named above, carry no tracking parameters.
What the commission changes
Nothing about the ordering, and nothing about what gets said. The comparison table is ordered by cost of entry and by how much a buyer can verify before funding an account, which is a rule written down in advance on the review methodology page and applied the same way to native ad networks that pay and to those that do not. A commercial relationship has never been offered in exchange for a position, and the four independence rules in the editorial policy are what stop the question from arising.
Worth being blunt about the incentive rather than pretending it does not exist: a partner link gives this site a financial reason to prefer one of the native ad networks it covers. The defence is not good intentions, it is a published rule that produces a checkable result. If the ordering ever stops matching the stated criteria, that is a breach a reader can point to.
Using the site without the partner links
Type the network's address into your browser directly. You will get the same account, the same minimum deposit and the same platform, and this site will earn nothing. Nothing on any page is gated behind a partner link. No content is withheld from readers who go around them.
Why the disclosure sits where it does
US law treats the format of a commercial message as material. The FTC's guidance on native ads, which the reference article covers in detail, turns on whether a reasonable reader can tell that something is commercial before acting on it. A site that explains that standard and then hides its own commercial relationship in a footer would be failing its own subject matter. The disclosure is therefore repeated in the body of the reference article itself, not only here.
Questions
Anything unclear about a specific link can be asked through the contact page. Background on who publishes the site is on the about page and on the author page.