How we make money
Ontario Bonus costs you nothing because the operators in its tables pay for it. Open an account after clicking through from a row and the operator may pay us a commission for that registration. Every table ends with a one-line notice saying so. What follows is the full account: how those payments are structured, the things they cannot buy, and the Ontario rules that govern anyone promoting gambling in the province.
Three ways an operator pays
Each operator's contract fixes which of three structures applies. None of it is visible in the tables, and none of it changes them:
- CPA — a single payment per new customer. A set fee once a newly registered player makes a qualifying first deposit. What that player does afterwards leaves the fee unchanged.
- Revenue share. A cut of the operator's earnings from that player over time — and those earnings are the player's net losses. A player who finishes a period ahead produces nothing to share. Put plainly, under this model our income grows as a player loses, and that is the reason this page is here.
- Hybrid. A reduced single payment together with a reduced revenue share.
You pay nothing, there is no subscription, and your data is not for sale. Nobody can pay us to write a particular review or to buy a position in a list.
Following a button
Every comparison button opens the operator's own site directly. The links are marked rel="sponsored", which tells readers and search engines alike that they are commercial. Arriving through Ontario Bonus changes nothing about the account you open: the terms are the ones the operator's own site sets out.
What commission cannot buy
The comparison lists 21 operators at the moment. There is a commercial agreement behind every one of them, and we would rather say so than let the word independent suggest otherwise. The register decides who is listed; the contracts exist all the same.
- Not a score. No operator here carries a rating or a ranking, and a position in a list is never sold. What each review covers is explained on how we review.
- Not a place on the list. Only operators currently on iGaming Ontario's register appear, whatever an unregistered brand offers or pays.
- Not the verdict. A slow withdrawal is called a slow withdrawal. A contract does not soften how a drawback is described.
Your data, and why an operator is dropped
The click carries nothing that identifies you — no name, no email address, nothing about your play once you are on the operator's site. From that point the operator's own privacy notice applies, not ours; this site's handling of data is in the privacy policy.
No contract keeps a misbehaving operator in the tables. It is taken out when its registration is revoked, surrendered or allowed to lapse, or when a pattern of unpaid or badly delayed withdrawals can be shown. How generously its programme pays plays no part either way — a poorly paying programme does not mark an operator down.
What Ontario's rules require
Responsibility for what an affiliate publishes sits with the operator. The Registrar of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario sets standards for internet gaming, and Standard 1.21 binds a registered operator to affiliates that do not promote unregistered brands to people in Ontario. That single rule shapes this whole site: it is why the comparison carries only operators on iGaming Ontario's directory, and why an operator that is not in it stays off the table. The rest follows from the same standards — no promise of winnings, nothing aimed at people under 19, and no bonuses, free spins or other inducements advertised anywhere on the site.
Spotted a problem?
A row that looks paid for, a product detail that differs from the operator's own site, a link that misbehaves: email [email protected] or use the contact page and the row gets fixed. Who runs the site is on about us.
The model above has a consequence worth stating outright. Every gambling product carries a house edge, so over time the money ends up with the operator — and this business earns from that arithmetic rather than changing it. Read responsible gambling before you deposit more than you can afford to lose, and call ConnexOntario on 1-866-531-2600 if gambling has stopped being on your terms. 19+.
The full list of registered operators, in the order commission did not set, is in the comparison.
