The money questions, answered without the usual fog

Last revised 14 September 2026.

Third set. Also the one people ask about most bluntly.

How is this paid for?

By referral, and by nothing else. You take a link, you use what is on the other end, and once in a while a payment finds its way back here. Your side of it is unchanged. None of your details go along for the ride.

Is there advertising anywhere?

No. Not a banner, not a slot held empty, not a network quietly contacted while the page loads. There is no basket here and never was a field asking for a card. The reading is free and it earns this address nothing.

Did anybody pay to be mentioned?

Nobody bought a mention. Nobody saw a draft. Nobody had a line taken out after complaining. The comparisons come from sitting in the rooms, which is slow work and the only kind that produces a sentence worth keeping.

Doesn't that still bias what you write?

It bends, and the bend has a direction worth stating out loud. Payment arrives at the exit, so there is no reason to keep you reading. The pull is towards a short page and towards the door.

Which gives you a way to weigh any page like this one. Look for where it tells you to stop. If nothing on it ever points away — every hour is a good hour, every service worth trying, every doubt tidily answered — then the referral wrote it, not somebody who spent an evening there.