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Re:Alarming number of DNS requests made by iOS devices by tomjakubowski on Saturday October 21, 2017 @11:53PM (#15525087)
What benefit would a captive portal derive from hiding from Apple's captive portal detector?
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Re:Alarming number of DNS requests made by iOS devices by hmage on Sunday October 22, 2017 @12:26AM (#15525155)
iOS offers a slideover view that gets dismissed once absence of captive portal is detected. That way you can’t redirect people forcibly to your website after auth is done in a way that persists.

But if you force people to use a browser rather than auto disappearing modal view, the bounce rate is much lower once you force them to visit your website after captive portal login.

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