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The rules

• No pre-publication approval. No brand, PR agency or retailer sees a review, a score or a dataset before it goes live. There is no embargo arrangement that grants review access in exchange for it.
• No paid placement. Position in a ranking or in the Finder cannot be bought. Ranking follows measured results and, in the Finder, your own home measurements.
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• No sponsored reviews. We do not accept payment to test, review or feature a product.
• No brand copy. We do not publish manufacturer-supplied text, images or benchmark claims as our own findings.
• We publish inconvenient results. If a popular, high-commission product fails a test, the failure is published with the same prominence as a success.

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Conflicts of interest

• Units received free of charge are labelled as such on the review, permanently. See the unit source policy.
• We do not accept travel, event hospitality or gifts from brands in this category.
• We hold no financial position in any manufacturer covered on this site.

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