Downdetector and Speedtest have been sold for over $1 billion

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• ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  openspeedtest.com

  In case anyone wants a new speed test.

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  • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also librespeed.org

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I host my own of this which is nice for testing local connections as well

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it’s built into Chrome. Just search speed test and it brings you to M-Lab.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Down votes for reality. Never change, Lemmy.

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  • adhdsnoozebutton@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you!!

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• Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do people just make up numbers for what companies are worth? I don’t see how either of these are worth much of anything.

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  • homes@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, this makes me immediately suspicious

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A company is valued by what somebody is willing to pay for it.

    So kind of, yes.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Speedtest probably gets billions of visitors a month, thats a lot of IPs and browser data you can harvest and sell.

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• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Prepare for enshittification while Accenture tries to find an RoI.

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  • EpicMuch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is most likely true, a billion times over

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• Pratai@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Downdetector is hot garbage anyway.

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you! It’s divination in my opinion.

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• hexagonwin@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  damn, both were kinda useful. doesn’t seem $1B worth tho lol

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    just wait until it gets shitty.

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• belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Welp, that was nice while it lasted. Its gonna become a shithole now as they try to get double digit growth on the “investment”

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• Tapirs_Are_AI_Slop@lemmy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s the value here? Both these sites get traffic and now they gotta apply even more trackers in an attempt to sell data and turn a profit off the purchase? Make a downdetector account to see which sites are down? Install our app?

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  • northernlights@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sounds about right.

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