Speedtest.net not accessible in Chrome due to deceptive ads

Wed Jul 20 18:52:36 UTC 2016

In that case, for Canadians, go to http://performance.cira.ca, it's MLAB-NDT based and checks IPv6 and DNSSEC :-)

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Ishmael Rufus
>Sent: July-20-16 10:33 AM
>To: Janusz Jezowicz
>Cc: NANOG list
>Subject: Re: Speedtest.net not accessible in Chrome due to deceptive ads
>
>http://www.measurementlab.net/tools/ndt/
>
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>On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Janusz Jezowicz <janusz at speedchecker.xyz>
>wrote:
>
>> It seems that some users reporting the site is back. I am counting 6+
>> hours of outage.
>>
>> Alan - what you describe is something normal user will never do. When
>> user sees red screen like that, he runs screaming. So in theory yes,
>> it was accessible, but ... wasn't.
>>
>> Its hard to avoid Google nanny when they offer so many useful services
>>
>>
>>
>> On 20 July 2016 at 14:09, <A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > > Since this morning Speedtest.net is not accessible in Chrome
>> > > Reason:
>> > >
>> >
>> https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagnostic/#url
>> =c.speedtest.net
>> >
>> > someones complained about the URL based on them stupidly installing
>> > 'cleanmymac' or such?
>> >
>> > use the non flash junk HTML5 version instead
>> >
>> > http://beta.speedtest.net/
>> >
>> > still bleats about "Deceptive site ahead"
>> >
>> > and PS "is not accessible in Chrome" - not true.
>> >
>> > click DETAILS,  then click on
>> >
>> > visit this unsafe site.
>> >
>> > (with the pre-condition of " if you understand the risks to your
>> security"
>> >
>> >
>> > I personally dont want or need Google to start being my nanny on the
>> > internet  :/
>> >
>> >
>> > alan
>> >
>> > PS you may have other interests involved here given your affiliation
>> > to speedchecker.xyz
>> >
>>