Last updated 5 Oct 2026
Ads and affiliate disclosure
How Outage Status Now is paid for, how to spot an advert, and what money never changes.
The short version
- The site is free to use and is funded by advertising and, in future, affiliate links.
- Anything we are paid for is labelled “Ad”, “Advertisement” or “Ad · Affiliate link” — before you read it, not hidden at the bottom.
- Money never changes the status we report. We do not invent outages, soften real ones, or rank tools because someone pays us.
Advertisements
We show display adverts served by Google AdSense. They sit below the answer and never cover the checker. Google chooses which adverts appear; we do not write them and do not endorse the products in them. Ad areas are marked as advertisements. In the UK, the EEA and Switzerland, personalised ads only run after consent through Google’s consent message — see privacy.
Affiliate links
An affiliate link is a tracked link to another company’s product. If you click one and then buy or sign up, that company may pay us a commission. The price you pay is the same as going direct.
Because we may earn money from it, every affiliate card is an advert. It will carry the label “Ad · Affiliate link” at the top, a short note that we may earn a commission, and a link back to this page. The link itself is marked rel="sponsored" so search engines know it is paid.
Right now there are no live affiliate links on this site. Affiliate cards stay hidden until a real partner programme has accepted us and a tracked link has been added. When that changes, this page and the labels below apply.
What stays independent
- Status. Service pages show what the vendor’s own public feed says. If we cannot read a feed, we say so rather than guess.
- Guides. Triage steps are written to fix the problem, whether or not a paid product is involved. An affiliate card is never part of the fix.
- Vendors. No vendor pays to be listed, to appear “up”, or to have an incident left out. We are not affiliated with the companies named on the site.
Why we tell you this
UK advertising rules (the CAP Code, enforced by the Advertising Standards Authority) expect adverts — including affiliate links — to be obviously identifiable as advertising. We aim to follow that guidance and the FTC equivalent for US readers. This page explains our approach; it is not legal advice.