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[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Didn't think of that, but that sounds illegal

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 months ago

Only if they get caught. Looking at you VW.

[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Too bad our supreme court has recently stripped all US agencies of their......agency...

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As somebody who once worked at an ISP: they absolutely do that, and it isn't illegal. In fact, ISP's host many of Ookla's speedtest servers. The less infrastructure your test needs to go through, the better the results will be—there's nothing faster than a network that's communicating with itself.