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Affiliate Disclosure

Last updated: June 12, 2026

Secure-OS earns money through affiliate partnerships. This page explains exactly how, because a recommendation you can't audit is worth nothing.

How it works

Some links on this site — currently to Proton products (Mail, VPN, Pass, Drive) — are affiliate links. If you click one and later subscribe, we receive a commission. The price you pay is unchanged.

Our rules

• Affiliate links are visually marked ("sponsored · affiliate link") and carry rel="sponsored nofollow".
• They never appear in an article's introduction.
• A maximum of two or three per article, always in context.
• We only partner with services we would recommend without compensation — open source clients, published security audits, end-to-end encryption.
• Commissions never change a verdict. Critical sections (limitations, "what it doesn't protect against") are written before any affiliate placement.

Why Proton

Proton's products are open source on the client side, independently audited, based in Switzerland, and end-to-end encrypted — criteria consistent with the Secure Desktops charter this site inherits. When a better option exists for a given use case, we say so in the article.

Questions about a specific placement? Ask us.