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Re:HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023 by rav on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @10:29AM (#31505045)
Similar to HTTPS-only being built into web browsers, isn't captive portal detection built into all modern OSes? What's the badly-setup wifi network that requires you to open your browser but doesn't get detected properly by the OS as a captive portal?
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Re:HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023 by notatoad on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @10:41AM (#31505255)
it isn't so much "badly" set up as maliciously set up. Captive portal vendors like to find ways of defeating the operating system's captive portal detection, because it hinders their ability to show ads after the captive portal login process.
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Re:HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023 by ezfe on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @12:29PM (#31506792)
Many don't because the captive portal works differently than the regular browser, I'm guessing. If you exit the captive portal on iOS (say to look up a password), you can't just go back to it, you have rejoin the network and start over.
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