It seems like they're mostly interested in Ookla's commercial mobile network services, Ekahau and RootMetrics.
kieron115
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They bought all of Ookla from Ziff Davis, which includes rootmetrics and ekahau (various mobile network analytics/performance optimization stuff). Downdetector and Speedtest are just the two Ookla products that most people know so they get the headlines.
Oh my bad I thought we were talking about the entire Ars team, not the individual author.
"malpractice" would have been not puling the story/issuing a retraction.
Journalistic integrity? On my internet? Well I never.
Gonna turn an old vacuum tube into an extruder nozzle to keep that nice, warm analog sound.
Can't wait til 3d printers get good enough to make records so i can stock up on audiophile filament!
I would also put a good bit of the blame on executives and marketing people being way out of touch with the average person.
to get something as flexible as my android tv i'd need an nvidia shield and those are going on ten years old at this point. maybe if/when they do a hardware refresh, assuming sideloading isn't completely impossible by then.
Yeah. To be honest on the DNS side it would probably be far easier to just do a whitelist instead, block everything except your specific service. and yeah, its a stupid amount of work. i hate smart tvs but i'll be damned if im gonna pay extra for a streaming box =|
just saying its possible
They purchased all of Ookla from Ziff Davis, which includes Ekahau and RootMetrics. They're in this for the commercial side of it. Speedtest and Downdetector seem to be mostly PR sites from what I can tell. Like to get the Ookla name out there so people know who they are.