Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]

Huh! I had no idea. Thank you!

Could you elaborate on that? I’m not up to date on FOSS / open source licensing.

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.

If I can’t type /pizza in EverQuest to get a pizza to wizard itself to my doorstep, I don’t even know what technology is trying to do anymore.

You can tell a real programmer made this because it’s unreadable.

Oh my gosh, that’s messed up. And you can’t even turn it off??!?

What? Where? I haven’t seen an ad in Firefox since Carter was president.