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> It starts as soon as you visit, other speed tests don't, which violates a user's consent. 1) fast.com, 2) this feels like a reach, isn't "going to a speed te
by owenmarshall 6y ago
> It starts as soon as you visit, other speed tests don't, which violates a user's consent.
1) fast.com, 2) this feels like a reach, isn't "going to a speed test site" a pretty clear indicator of what the user intends to do?
> It gives wildly different results than other speedtests, with no explanation as to why.
I'm confused what your platonic ideal of a speed test is. Off the top of my head, I may care about:
* "speed to my ISP"
* "speed to something I care about that's 'nearby'" (fast.com to a Netflix box peered close to me)
* "speed to a CDN" (speed.cloudflare.com)
* "speed to a random data center somewhere" (speedof.me and friends)
* "speed to a box I own"
I'd be amazed if I didn't see significant deviation between all of those measures.
- rndgermandude 6y agoI am on the fence about the consent thing. Yes, it's a speed test, but no, you don't really necessarily know that when it gets linked on some site. Burning through quite a bit of potentially metered data without asking first seems... rude, at the very least.
- cryptoquick 6y agoIt's not hard to put a button. And not putting one (and still collecting the resulting data) is against the law in several places around the world. Trust me, if you have a gigabit fiber connection like mine, you would notice that their results are way, way off the mark. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23314368 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23314368