Hello Julian (@TotallyInformation )
You wrote:
You forgot Iran 
No, serious
In But for the paranoid version of me, the biggest reason to avoid this is that we don't know what we are connecting to, where it is, how it is controlled/protected, or what information about us is being retained.
I looked somewhat further and their way is quite well documented.
In the other post Help with how to get "speed test" results saved - #11 by TotallyInformation you wrote:
Another thing to note - the raw network speed is only part of the data you need.Network Jitter is also important and I don't believe Speedtest tells you that? Latency is also important of course. And if you have ANY packet loss, you have an issue.
I found that they describe that in their documentation, as well.
See: Orb Detail View
I think, it works more or less the same as all the other applications, such as speedtest.net from Ookla. Not surprising, as the current CEO of Orb was the previous CEO of Ookla.
Even node-red-contrib-speedtest is based on speedtest.net.
But perhaps some articles are interesting to read.
or
https://www.howtogeek.com/ookla-founder-launches-orb-a-smarter-internet-quality-tracker/
Regards
