The information you gave was awesome, really appreciate your find.
By all means, if you’ve got sources and links please feel free to share mate!
No problem, glad you found it useful!
As in explaining the potential earnings? 30% means they can earn up to 30% of whatever plan was bought by whoever clicked their link. I felt that area was already fairly heavy.
The segment in question does show the working out though for Nord for example.
So let’s napkin math this bad boy. We’ll go with NordVPN, seeing as they have one of the most aggressive affiliate programs worldwide.
A single sale of their popular 2-year plan nets an affiliate site $28.73 per conversion. The industry average for conversion rates for an affiliate site is around 0.5% - 1.0%. Nord hints at a much higher one in their marketing materials, but we’ll use 0.5% for now.
If we look at a popular affiliate site that runs multiple affiliates like Kape Technologies’ Safety Detectives, which has 3.1M hits a month, we can guestimate a rough payout.
0.5% of 3.1M is 15500 15500 x $28.73 = $445,315
We should account for the fact that a lot of their users may be visiting for informational purposes and not for commercial ones. Their bounce rate on SimilarWeb suggests that 73.86% of visitors visit one page before leaving.
Let’s say they’re not buying (even though they are potentially converting off a single landing page).
73.86% of 3,100,000 = 2,289,660. That leaves us with 810,340 visitors who at least check another page before leaving.
0.5% of 810, 340 = 4052 4052 x $28.73 = $116,413.96
Oops accidentally leaked a new feature in the pipeline,
Windscribe isn’t complying but it’s still being discussed on what’s the best course of action for the Indian servers. If you’re from India you can continue to keep using Windscribe with no affect on you. https://www.reddit.com/r/Windscribe/comments/uj51ia/comment/i7k9nje/
Sorry, I’m blind or someone already fixed it but cheers all the same.
Typos happen to the best of us haha.
I could be considered an “Enthusiast”, whatever that means.
“a person who is very interested in a particular activity or subject.”
Hope this helps!
Sure I’d be down to check that out, cheers for sharing I can start researching them for the next update!
This was actually a passion project I’ve wanted to do for months to be honest, as I’m interested in knowing more about these links myself.
Some are more careful than others. Simon Whistler, for example, was pretty good about “This service isn’t available in my country, but…” or “I’m bald as fuck already, but…” etc. but I’ve seen creators claim to use products that are unavailable in their country tons of times.
Thanks! It will be a good point to update my reviews 
I will double-check reviews, website, software and whole info. Thanks.
VICE’s CYBER podcast frequently runs ad reads for IP Vanish, and it makes me cringe every time I hear it.
“Without added security you might as well be giving away your all your private data to hackers, advertisers, your ISP and other prying eyes.”
“IP Vanish makes you virtually invisible online.”
“I don’t go online anymore without using IP Vanish.”
Their referral link is ipvanish [dot] com [slash] cyber
It was unclear the conversion rates is the percentage of people buying the vpn after clicking the affiliate sites or it was a different metric for affiliation? Does the rate actually includes the ones that clicked and left the site?
Tysm! Hope more people see this.
From what i understand.
India server may be removed, but i can still download the app and choose say Netherlands and use it normally privately.
Am I correct?
As long as they’re getting paid they’ll hawk anything.
Cheers for that. I’ll make sure this makes it into the update!
Just for clarity a conversion means a sale has occurred. A conversion does not affect those who just leave. That’s why I kinda accounted for bounce rate to just try and find a way to guesstimate potential earnings.
If you had an affiliate link to Nord for example and 100 people bought the two-year plan, you would earn $2873. That only occurs when people complete the conversion. You don’t get paid if people don’t buy.
Ahhh a tag. Sweet, cheers for that!