is supposed to give you a list of pros and cons and give you a more balanced perspective that is not marred by the bias of monetary gain you can see where the problem comes in when affiliate links gets thrown into the mix all of a sudden now that you have linked your potential income to how well that you can sell a product you're no longer a reviewer the line gets blurred the line between reviewer salesman and promoter completely gets screwed up the moment affiliate links come into the picture basically what all this means is that affiliate links incentivize positivity you are now afraid to talk about the deal breakers talk about the flaws or from a much smaller extent you smooth them over you put less emphasis on the flaws and negatives and the deal breakers or whatever because again the more you talk about these bad points the less people you're going to convince to buy the product and therefore your income is going to suffer and again i know that reviews are going to be happy to tell you that all of this is not going to affect them and my point is always the same you don't know that again it's just the existence of the influence of monetary gain but it's not just simply monetary gain because i'm not against reviewers trying to make this your job it's monetary gain that affects the reviews there is a huge problem here now the usual pushback to this is that affiliate links are a necessary evil in that it's really hard as a reviewer as a content creator to make this you know our full-time jobs and this is kind of like the easiest way because you're already doing reviews you're basically convincing people to buy things already why not monetize that aspect look i am a full-time reviewer as well i understand all of these problems i understand all these concerns and the way that i see it is that it's fine if you are not in the position of being a reviewer like let's say this right there's this monitor this tv that i always feature in my videos if i put an affiliate link for this in my description there is no bias because i don't review monitors i don't review you know all of these things it's not my wheelhouse so it's fine right the problem is that let's say i'm reviewing headphone number NUMBER_TOKEN and then saying how good it is and then i drop the affidavit name suddenly you see that there is a there is doubt are you saying the product is good because it's actually good or i think the product is good because saying that it's good literally earns you more money so what about the other income streams right if not affiliate links why not find other ways first of all it's the most obvious one which would be sponsors on vpn nordvpn is a virtual private network that allows you to anonymize your web traffic with a simple click of a button this basically secures your traffic and allows you to access sites that would have otherwise been blocked by your local isp so i personally use nordvpn to access shows on netflix that would have otherwise been geographically blocked from my region the local netflix content can be a little bit mediocre so what nor vpn does is that it basically allows me to unlock the full catalog of my netflix account stay safe with nordvpn and basically unlock your full access to the world wide web and now
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