The wider world · 126 / 127 · 2 min
Affiliates
The link paid someone. You paid the same price. The fee was split where you could not see it.
The price looked the same. The fee was split.
A worked case
A video says a platform is the one to use and leaves a code under the description. The speaker is paid when you fund the account. The review never said so. The coin was not improved by the code. The speaker was.
The click
A code, a link, or a video can carry a referral. The platform pays the referrer from the fee, or from a bonus. The price on your screen often does not show the split.
The costume
A recommendation that earns the speaker a cut is a paid post. The cut does not make the coin safer, and it does not make the speaker a fiduciary. Ask who gets paid for this click.
The code under the video
Referral programmes pay the person who brought the account. The payment comes from the platform, often out of fees or a bonus pool. The visitor sees a link. They do not see the rate.
The Financial Conduct Authority's consumer research keeps finding that people meet this market through ads, friends, and social media. A friend with a code is a friend with a payer. Ask who gets paid for the click before you treat the link as a favour.
Read it yourself
These links are the record. They are not a recommendation, and they are not instructions. A news story or a court paper can still be wrong about a detail. The check does not change because a famous name is in the story.
Apply the check
Open a question. The line is about this topic. It is not a verdict that anything is safe.
The referrer, from the platform's program.
The platform, which can change the rate.
Nothing in the code stops you. The cut is why the link existed.
Check yourself
Write it in your own words. The course's answer opens after that. Nothing is sent.
After this you can ask whether the person who sent you the link is paid if you use it.