Affiliate Disclosure — Tiny Rages

We’re not a big media company with investors, sponsors, or a marketing department. Tiny Rages runs on caffeine, sarcasm, and the mild satisfaction of knowing someone else also yelled at their toaster this morning. But running a website isn’t free, and none of us has yet found a way to pay hosting fees in pure rage energy. So yes — we use affiliate links and ads to help cover costs.

Here’s what that means in plain English: sometimes when we mention a product — maybe a mug that promises to keep coffee hot for more than 12 minutes, or noise-cancelling headphones that claim to block out the sound of leaf blowers (liars) — we include a link. If you click that link and end up buying something, we might earn a small commission. You don’t pay anything extra, but we get a few coins to keep the lights on, the site up, and the group chat full of new rants.

We work with a few affiliate networks — Awin (Affiliate Window), FlexOffers, Commission Junction (CJ), ShareASale, and Webgains. We also use Google AdSense for ads. Those ads help us stay online, but we try to keep them sensible — no miracle diets, crypto schemes, or “one weird trick” nonsense. If an ad annoys us too much, it’s gone.

Now, the important bit: affiliate links never influence what we write. If something’s good, we’ll say so. If something’s terrible, we’ll say that louder. We’ve roasted everything from bad gadgets to worse “life hacks,” and we’re not about to start pretending otherwise for pocket change. Every opinion on this site comes from an actual person who has personally been annoyed by the thing in question.

If a company ever sends us something to review, we’ll tell you. And we’ll still be honest about it. If it breaks, leaks, or generally fails at its one job, we’ll write about that too. Our goal isn’t to sell — it’s to entertain. We’re not influencers; we’re professional complainers with decent grammar.

Affiliate links help keep Tiny Rages independent. We don’t do sponsored posts. We don’t write “brand partnerships.” We don’t take money to say nice things. If you see a product mentioned here, it’s because one of us actually used it, hated it, loved it, or was confused by it enough to make content about it.

We also care about transparency, because hiding this stuff feels icky. We’re readers too, and we’ve all fallen for “unbiased reviews” that turned out to be thinly veiled sales pitches. That’s not us. We disclose everything clearly and openly, because trust matters more than commission clicks. (Also, we’re really bad at lying — one of us would definitely tweet about it within an hour.)

Here’s how affiliate tracking actually works: when you click one of our affiliate links, a small cookie (the digital kind, not the good kind) gets stored in your browser. It lets the retailer know you came from our site. That’s it. We can’t see who you are, what else you bought, or which of your tabs contain embarrassing searches. We only get notified if a purchase happened, not who made it.

If you’d rather avoid affiliate links completely, that’s fine too. You can open the same site in a new tab and we’ll never know. We’ll still love you. Well, most of us.

To summarize:

1. We use affiliate links to help fund the site.
2. You don’t pay extra when you buy through them.
3. We don’t take money for good reviews or kind words.
4. We disclose freebies or partnerships (rare as they are).
5. We keep things honest, funny, and human.
6. If something sucks, we’ll say so — loudly.

We know “affiliate disclosure” pages are usually boring, but this one’s important. Tiny Rages only exists because of readers who share our sense of humor about life’s irritations. Every click, comment, and email helps us keep the rants coming — not just the big ones, but the little ones that make you feel weirdly seen.

If you have questions about how affiliate links or ads work here — or if you want to yell at us about how every website seems to have a cookie banner now — email [email protected]. We’ll reply personally, probably while swearing at a broken shopping cart or a login that didn’t save.

Transparency matters to us because the internet is already full of nonsense. We promise to keep ours honest, mildly exasperated, and slightly better formatted.