Editorial Policy
5MB.me publishes practical explanations about browser compression, privacy, file formats, and document-quality tradeoffs. Claims are verified against browser APIs, file format specifications, and current product behavior before publication. This policy describes how that content is produced and maintained.
Purpose and audience
Editorial content is written to help people make informed compression decisions and verify results. It should answer a real user question, distinguish facts from recommendations, explain material limitations, and avoid exaggerated promises. Content is not legal, security, medical, financial, archival, or regulatory advice.
Research and sources
Technical claims should be based on direct product behavior, file-format specifications, browser documentation, maintained library documentation, standards bodies, or other primary sources where available. Secondary sources may provide context but should not be the sole basis for a consequential claim.
When content discusses 5MB.me behavior, it should be checked against the current implementation and a representative set of files. Examples and target recommendations should identify uncertainty rather than imply universal results.
Writing and review
Articles should use descriptive titles, plain language, logical headings, and original analysis. A review should check factual accuracy, internal links, visible product behavior, privacy claims, source quality, readability, and whether structured data matches the visible page.
Automated tools may assist with research organization, drafting, editing, translation, or technical validation. Material is reviewed before publication, and responsibility for the published content remains with 5MB.me rather than the tool used to assist.
Independence and commercial influence
Editorial conclusions are not sold. Sponsored content, affiliate relationships, paid placements, or material conflicts of interest must be disclosed clearly on the relevant page. At present, the published compression guides do not contain paid rankings or affiliate recommendations.
Updates and corrections
Content should be reviewed when supported formats, compression behavior, browser capabilities, privacy practices, or relevant standards materially change. The displayed publication or update date should reflect a meaningful review, not a cosmetic edit.
Confirmed material errors should be corrected promptly. A correction may be noted on the page when the earlier statement could have affected a user's decision. Minor grammar, formatting, and clarity edits may be made without a separate notice.
Feedback
Readers can report a factual error, unclear explanation, broken source, or undisclosed conflict by writing to editorial [at] 5mb.me. Include the page URL and enough detail to reproduce or assess the concern.