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Add blockers, and even specialty firewalls can effect something like the speedtest, or even some other sites from even allowing you to login all together.
Some of them will be 'blocking' when they try to access things outside of that page.
They assume that if its not loading assets from its own page, that it is likely pulling an add or something from elsewhere.
I have seen them effect logins for some pages, where they use a separate login service which re-directs back that you authenticated.. that it blocks that other site from you logging in as its not the same as the one your on.
Its not necessarily a gathering thing.
Moreso, as I mentioned, an outgoing request.
That the speed test is making a request outbound to somewhere else.
Looking a little further..
"Privacy Badger was born out of our desire to be able to recommend a single extension that would automatically analyze and block any tracker or ad that violated the principle of user consent; which could function well without any settings, knowledge, or configuration by the user; which is produced by an organization that is unambiguously working for its users rather than for advertisers; and which uses algorithmic methods to decide what is and isn't tracking."
So not blocking based on connection.
BUT from that description, its based on anything which 'tracks' any information.
Yes, this is used primarily by Ads, where the specific add company when you go to say walmarts site, it writes to a cookie on your machine (or collects to their side) that you visited there, and then when you go somewhere else, reads that you went there and shows you walmarts on that site as well, etc.
Its quite possible, for recording and/or keeping past speed test results, location, etc, that its just trying to write a cookie to the machine to store that information. And the program might be blocking it.
I completely understand the need and how/why people due use the blockers. They are a good thing.
But sometime its the SITE thats the problem, even if they are not trying to do something bad 😞
I have seen sites, which will only load like 3 lines of the site then thats it, because of the blockers.
The code is so bad, and because its not loading in the part, it doesnt load the rest 😞
Hey @os3rules!
Seeing a much lower speed than anticipated can certainly come as a shock! I can confirm that Ookla speed test is accurate. I'll be happy to help identify why you're unable to see higher speeds. To begin, are you able to complete a speed test with two wired devices at the same time? Alternatively one wired device to the modem and one wireless (using 5G). Once done share the results with us and we can go from there.
@os3rules wrote:
Hi,
I think I have asked this before but - here goes. What happened to all the Rogers servers on the Speedtest.net site? They have been gone for a while now.
I'm not sure why your post got moved to this thread.
Rogers has SEVERAL speedtest.net servers set up. I can query the list of servers in Canada and a list of servers containing "rogers" in the server record using the following commands:
curl 'https://www.speedtest.net/api/js/servers?search=canada' | json_pp
curl 'https://www.speedtest.net/api/js/servers?search=rogers' | json_pp
However, I don't know why the Rogers servers are not being used by the https://www.speedtest.net web site.
However, I don't know why the Rogers servers are not being used by the https://www.speedtest.net web site.
Maybe this could be the problem. Looking at the list of servers in Canada, they all have a "https_functional" attribute in their server record EXCEPT for the Rogers servers. Perhaps the Rogers servers are misconfigured and/or unusable for some reason?
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