The mechanics, step by step
Every casino button and link on Play Dork Unit points at an internal /go/ path first, for example /go/gamdom. That redirect sends you on to the operator carrying a tag that identifies this site as the referrer. If you then register and play, the operator's affiliate program credits us a commission, usually computed as a percentage of its long-term margin on players we referred.
Three consequences of that model, stated without varnish:
- You pay nothing extra. Dork Unit's odds, the 96.24% RTP, the bonuses, and the withdrawal terms are identical whether you arrive through our link or type the casino URL yourself. Commissions come out of operator marketing budgets.
- Our revenue rises when referred players lose. That is the honest shape of casino affiliation, and it is why this site pairs every money page with loss warnings and a standing link to our responsible gambling resources. We accept earning less from careful players as the cost of being able to look at this page without flinching.
- We never see your data. Affiliate dashboards report anonymous aggregate signups and revenue. Your identity, bets, and balances stay between you and the operator.
Our four partners, and how they got there
As of the date above, we hold affiliate relationships with exactly four operators: Gamdom, Stake, Roobet, and Rainbet, the same four casinos ranked on the best Dork Unit casinos page. The order of operations matters: each of those casinos first passed the seven-point test on our about page, with our own deposits, real Dork Unit sessions, and timed withdrawals, and the affiliate relationship came afterward. A casino that fails testing stays unlisted regardless of what its program offers, and no operator has ever entered our rankings because of a commission. Gamdom sits first because it scored highest in testing, not because of what it pays.
Where our content mentions a site or product we have no relationship with, including Hacksaw Gaming itself, that mention is unpaid and appears purely because the page would be incomplete without it.
Why the money cannot reach the rankings
- Scores come from a fixed rubric of tested criteria; commission rate is not an input, and reviewers do not handle affiliate negotiations.
- Review conclusions are locked before commercial terms are looked at.
- Positions, badges, scores, and copy are not for sale, and there are no "sponsored review" arrangements at any price.
- Operators never see drafts and cannot request edits. They find out their score when you do.
- If a partner's product gets worse, the quarterly re-test drops its ranking or removes it, with the commercial relationship unchanged.
Spotting a paid link at a glance
You never need to guess on this site. Monetized links have two fixed, machine-checkable traits: they route through a /go/ path, and they carry rel="sponsored" in the markup. Every affiliate call to action also sits next to a visible disclosure line on the page itself, before the click, which is what the FTC's endorsement guidance asks for: clear, conspicuous, and adjacent, not buried. Ordinary internal links and unpaid external links have none of those markers. The one-line footer disclosure repeats on every page, and this document is the full version all of those short notices point to.
Pages we keep commission-free
Some pages will never carry an affiliate call to action, as fixed policy: the responsible gambling page, this page, the privacy policy, and the terms of use. The free Dork Unit demo on our homepage works without registration and without clicking anything monetized; where a page around it references a partner brand, the standard disclosure line appears with it.
Questions about any commercial relationship go to [email protected]. If you find a spot anywhere on the site where a paid link lacks its disclosure, report it via the contact page; missing disclosures carry the same 48-hour fix commitment as factual errors.