InternetSpeedTester
The InternetSpeedTester software may be presented to PC users as a network test utility that fulfills a simple, yet important, purpose — measure the speed of your Internet connection. One of the advantages of InternetSpeedTester that may be pointed out to users is that it needs to be installed on the local disk to measure your Internet speed accurately. The InternetSpeedTester program can be installed to Windows for free, but you should take into consideration that it is an ad-supported instrument.
The InternetSpeedTester application is reported to collect data like your Internet history, software configuration, IP address, downloads log and installed browser add-ons. The InternetSpeedTester program helps marketers recognize your machine on the Internet and show targeted commercials in your browser. Extensions like the uBlock Origin and AdBlock Plus may be able to filter the content facilitated by InternetSpeedTester, but that may not be the case with all pages. InternetSpeedTester is marked as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that you should be careful when installing. InternetSpeedTester is designed to work as a Web app that is "a client-server computer program, which the client (including the user interface and client-side logic) runs in a Web browser" as described at the wikipedia[.]org/wiki/Web_application. InternetSpeedTester does not provide access to in-house network technologies. Instead, InternetSpeedTester loads a Web app version of h[tt]ps://fast[.]com and enables users to access it from the comfort of a program window as opposed to a tab in your Internet browser.
Fast[.]com is hosted by the video streaming platform Netflix (h[tt]ps://www.netflix[.]com) for users who wish to check if they can stream content from Netflix properly. You should know that the InternetSpeedTester is not published and endorsed by Netflix, Inc., and InternetSpeedTester does not offer information on its developers. You may wish to reconsider using InternetSpeedTester and remove it considering you can access fast[.]com in your Internet browser and get results on your Internet speed instantly.
