How DoNotKYC makes money
DoNotKYC is free to read, with no paywall. It earns money in two ways, and neither changes a listing.
Affiliate links
Some "Visit" buttons are affiliate links: if you sign up through one, the platform pays us part of its fees. You pay nothing extra. These platforms currently have one: MEXC, Bybit, Nonkyc.io, KCEX. In the VPN guide, the NordVPN and Proton VPN links are affiliate links too.
Affiliate links carry rel="sponsored". A platform with an affiliate link gets no better identity level, position or description than one without.
Sponsored tiles and advertising policy
A company can pay for a tile on the homepage or on a topic page. Every tile says "Sponsored", sits apart from the ranked list and links with rel="sponsored".
- Paying never changes a listing, its identity level or its position.
- We review every advertiser before accepting and refuse services with credible scam or frozen-funds reports.
- We remove a tile if new evidence of harm to users appears.
- We do not track visitors for advertisers: no cookies, no pixels.
- Running sponsors are listed on the advertise page.
What we do not sell
- Rankings, reviews or "verified" badges.
- Visitor data. We do not collect any: see the privacy policy.
- The removal of a listing or of a warning.
Who decides the order
Platforms are sorted by how much identity they ask for, following our methodology. Anyone can point out an error in public on GitHub: report a change.