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Is there any acceptable excuse for this not being open sourced?

• deleted 5y ago
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• hugh-avherald 5y ago
  Making it harder to fingerprint.
  • LMYahooTFY 5y ago
    Does this actually make it significantly harder to finger print?
• dombili 5y ago
  Looks like the app was outsourced to a company named SamKnows. They have another speed test app on their iOS developer page that looks eerily similar to this app. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/samknows-test-your-internet/id1178716856 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/samknows-test-your-internet/id...
  • Spivak 5y ago
    I mean it’s not that eerie. They found an app they liked paid to whitelabel it. Buy over build when good solutions already exist.
• commoner 5y ago
  Previous versions of the FCC Speed Test app are free and open source (GPLv2): 2017 iOS version: https://github.com/SamKnows/skios-fcc https://github.com/SamKnows/skios-fcc 2014 Android version: https://github.com/SamKnows/skandroid-fcc https://github.com/SamKnows/skandroid-fcc 2013 Android version: https://github.com/FCC/mobile-mba-androidapp https://github.com/FCC/mobile-mba-androidapp Methodology: https://www.fcc.gov/general/measuring-broadband-america-open-methodology https://www.fcc.gov/general/measuring-broadband-america-open... Judging from the media coverage, it looks like the app was recently updated. The source code for the current version has not yet been released, but I hope that it will be soon.
  • Zhenya 5y ago
    There is no guarantee that the app is built only from the open source bits.
    • commoner 5y ago
      That is always the case unless reproducible builds are available.