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Affiliate disclosure

LowSpec AI is written and paid for by one person. Some of the links on this site earn a commission. This page explains exactly how that works, because you should not have to guess.

Last updated: 17 October 2026.

The short version

If you click a link to a shop or a hardware seller and buy something, we may receive a small commission from that seller. You pay exactly the same price you would have paid by finding the shop yourself.

Which links are affiliate links

  • Hardware buttons. Anything labelled "Get ..." or shown inside a "Where to get it" box points at a retailer or an affiliate network. Those links carry rel="sponsored nofollow noopener", and a short note appears directly under the buttons.
  • Software links. Links to a project's own homepage, source repository or documentation are plain links. Almost every tool reviewed here is free and open source, so there is nothing to earn on it.
  • Programs involved. Awin (as a publisher), the Geekbuying affiliate program, and AliExpress Affiliate. The list changes as programs are approved or dropped, and this page is updated when it does.

What a commission never buys

Affiliate income has no influence on:

  • Scores. There are no star ratings here, invented or otherwise. Where a verdict appears it is editorial judgement and the reasoning is in the text.
  • Ranking or inclusion. A tool is listed because it runs on low-spec hardware, not because someone pays for it.
  • Verdicts. "Do not run this on 4 GB" is written the same way whether or not a commission exists on the alternative.

If a merchant ever pays for placement, that placement is labelled Sponsored and marked rel="sponsored". It has not happened yet. If it does, the label appears on the page itself, not buried here.

Cookies

Clicking an affiliate link may set a cookie from the retailer or the affiliate network so that the sale can be credited to this site. Those cookies are set by them, not by us, and they carry a click identifier rather than your name. We never receive your order contents, your address or your payment details.

This site sets no cookies of its own, runs no analytics and no advertising pixels. The host (Cloudflare) may set a strictly necessary security cookie and keeps standard request logs under its own policy — see the privacy policy.

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