Post #576090
2026-03-07 19:38 UTC
Replies (34)
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@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza 2026-03-09 14:29
@rikviergever@mastodon.social bookmarked.
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@msdropbear@friendica.opensocial.space 2026-03-08 00:06
@rikviergever sadly it seems not so handy for, eg, we in australia / new zealand, with the nearest server apparently japan. pity nothing in oceania.
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@rikviergever@mastodon.social 2026-03-07 19:39
"Calling it 'speed test data' dramatically undersells what is actually happening. Ookla captures more than 1,000 attributes per test. If you have given the app location access, it collects your precise GPS coordinates and links them to your home IP address, building a physical map of network locations tied to real households. 250 million consumer-initiated tests happen per month. That is 250 million data points per month from people who thought they were just checking their internet speed."
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@the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca 2026-03-07 23:08
@rikviergever Interestingly I get higher numbers from this than Speedtest gives me, including the ping.
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@menelion@dragonscave.space 2026-03-07 23:18
@rikviergever And of course, accessibility is… meh. I wonder, why almost all open-source solutions are so careless about accessibility?
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@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online 2026-03-08 00:19
@rikviergever Is this working for everyone? Just hangs on looking for server.
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@pcherry@hachyderm.io 2026-03-08 01:12
.@rikviergever OONI probe is ope source and open data, and doesn’t request geolocation (at least on iOS) https://ooni.org/
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@notyourfanboy@kolektiva.social 2026-03-08 01:24
@rikviergever Again I'm confused about a reality where a website that does a speed test is worth a billion dollars. 🫠 Yes, I saw the post about the other information which is collected. It still makes no sense.
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@crouton@aus.social 2026-03-08 01:32
@rikviergever that 1.2B pricetag in and of itself says something about the amount of data that ookla "incidentally" collects
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@BorrisInABox@fwoof.space 2026-03-08 01:49
@rikviergever You know what it also doesn't have? Screen reader accessibility. It's pretty much unusable with any screen reader for various reasons, unlike Ookla Speedtest which works very well. BTW, this sucks.
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@leoschuldiner23@linernotes.club 2026-03-08 01:51
@rikviergever thank you for sharing!
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@james@bne.social 2026-03-08 02:14
@rikviergever Given that librespeed’s closest test server is a 14 hour flight away, it’s a noble idea but entirely impractical.
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@ghouston@mamot.fr 2026-03-08 06:12
@rikviergever Hmm, not bad.
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@Gillinger@mas.to 2026-03-08 08:50
@rikviergever @StingrayBadger Gives me a download speed, but no upload reading. Tried it three times. Not that impressed
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@ryusei@techhub.social 2026-03-08 09:31
@rikviergever I already use OpenSpeedTest, but there's no alternatives for when I ssh into my servers and am limited to the cli. :(
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@xameer@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-08 11:06
@rikviergever @gabrielesvelto this was very needed
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@alper@rls.social 2026-03-08 12:12
@rikviergever Does libre mean my eyes have to bleed?
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@pinkforest@hachyderm.io 2026-03-08 12:59
@rikviergever Accenture was that final nail for bugtraq too. it had some sort of zombie resurrection by them that went nowhere.. https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2021/Jan/
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@kf0are@mastodon.hams.social 2026-03-08 14:33
@rikviergever This got my speed wrong by a factor of 15.
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@braxa26@mindly.social 2026-03-08 16:03
@rikviergever I'd like to use it but no servers available to me except in the fascist state to the south. Can't use it now but bookmarked for future consideration. 🇨🇦
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@illogical_me@mastodon.cloud 2026-03-09 03:26
@rikviergever I generally use fast.com , and while I am sure it does the same overcollection of data, it’s Netflix, so they already know. But I will give this a try.
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@sean@chaos.social 2026-03-09 08:48
@rikviergever Is there an alternative to Downdetector?
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@tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud 2026-03-09 11:58
@rikviergever sadly it doesn't really give good results :(
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@f4grx@chaos.social 2026-03-09 12:38
@rikviergever BEWARE I have never seen ANY site with THAT MANY third party scripts to load!!! WOW Have a look at the umatrix or ublock origin window, it's INSANE! it downloads from 21 different domains not including the main one!
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@efscher@fedi.nyc.what.if.ua 2026-03-09 14:55
@rikviergever Bufferbloat Test is quite good as a "speed" test: https://arshankhanifar.github.iou
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@jpsays@mastodon.social 2026-03-09 16:02
@rikviergever Not to mention selling data to ICE! https://govtribe.com/vendors/ookla-llc-ookla-5scf5
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@chrastecky@phpc.social 2026-03-09 16:02
@rikviergever Lovely, will use this next time I need a speed test!
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@light@noc.social 2026-03-09 19:41
@rikviergever That's cool. I have been wanting a speedtest.net and fast.com alternative that's good.
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@mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca 2026-03-09 20:31
@mayintoronto @rikviergever Wow and wow! Yup, checkin this alternative out.
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@mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca 2026-03-09 20:34
@mayintoronto @rikviergever Meh, too bad there isn't a Canadian server, but this will do just the same.
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@ahasty@techhub.social 2026-03-09 23:01
@rikviergever how do we feel about openspeedtest.com
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@mcfly@milliways.social 2026-03-09 23:48
@rikviergever@mastodon.social noble goal but pointless in my opinion. Have a 4Gbit symmetrical uplink and results vary from 150mbit to 2gbit....
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@sebsauvage@framapiaf.org 2026-03-10 12:38
@rikviergever@mastodon.social Thanks !
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@caravantraveller@social.cologne 2026-03-10 22:40
@rikviergever@mastodon.social We've been using https://openspeedtest.com/ and have been satisfied up to now. Anything wrong with that?