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Re:Ask HN: How do we convince all hotels to just provide fre... by jraph on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @09:31AM (#33343412)
Usually, captive portals make you enter your name and your email address. Many times, you can just put garbage, click ok and you have your internet access. There's no email verification in many places.

Some wifi access points (like the ones from cities) make you create an account though.

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Re:Ask HN: How do we convince all hotels to just provide fre... by mnw21cam on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @09:38AM (#33343512)
How would you verify your email address while you're trying to get wifi access if you don't have wifi access?
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Re:Ask HN: How do we convince all hotels to just provide fre... by jraph on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @10:03AM (#33343871)
Yes.

(more seriously, they could make it very annoying until you verify, like let you connect for a few minutes only, or at very low speed. Still, yes, and I guess this is a major reason why they don't make people verify their email address)

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