You are right, every review from websites, influencers and operators is a review that cannot be completely trusted because some of them will receive payment to compile reviews that can influence other people to gamble at scam casinos, they don't care about the reputation of the casino but they will agree to the proposal review when the value offered matches their expectations, so don't trust gambling reviews from outside the forum unless you can analyze some important points yourself to judge the reputation of the casino, just focus every review on the casino in this forum because we assess all aspects without manipulating any reviews because all analyzes are published for the benefit of the gambling community to avoid scam casinos.
As per the famous saying,
Honesty is the best Policy, so Honesty is the only thing I wanted to see in the gambling casino reviews.
There are many review sites but most of them lack honest reviews, I hope many will agree to this.
Most of the sites are either influenced by the writer himself where he gives good ratings to his favorite sites, so he or she only makes those review sites to get their promotional referral links and the site that offer good referrals becomes a good one in their opinion.
If the review sites have a lot of traffic, then there are high probability that the gambling sites may approach the owner of the review sites and may bribe him with money to put a good review about the site
So it is also hard to trust gambling review sites with the high volume of traffic.
You hit the nail on the head and I completely agree with what you have said, the truth remains that, as long as money is involved, there will always be a very little chance for honesty, review sites aren't forbidden from making money, Infact, they need money to keep running site, and keep everything updated as it should, so, there is actually a very little chance to or for honesty to exist in a review site that is already gaining good traffic and are being approached by different casinos for promotion.
So, personally, I've concluded that the best time to find an honest review on a review site is when the site is still very new, and this is not for all sites though, it's just the selected few where the reviewer don't care really much about referral or affiliate commission and so.
But then, best of the best when it comes to reading reviews for gambling casinos, is to depend on forums like this, since forum like this one, involves users of the casinos posting their personal experiences with using that casino, and not just one person writing reviews for several casinos, even the ones he or she have not played on.