WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight

Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by RandallBrown on Thursday September 28, 2023 @12:24PM (#37691903)

Probably 10-15 years ago when wifi on airlines was still pretty brand new I remember a fun hack for free Internet that involved Google Translate.

Because the wifi landing pages used Google Analytics, they allowed traffic through from many of the Google domains. You could then go to Google translate and translate the website from English to English and use it as sort of a proxy server to get free Internet.

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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by smegger001 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @12:59PM (#37692451)

You could probably have used googels cache to read arbitrary pages as well.

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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by spike021 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @01:51PM (#37693145)

I'll probably show my age, but around 15 years ago I was in high school and they blocked most websites as well. This "hack" using Google Translate was how some of us got around the blocklist for many things. It was nice because it didn't involve having to install anything special or try to change configurations that were probably monitored by library/school admin.

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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by noman-land on Thursday September 28, 2023 @05:03PM (#37695801)

This hack often works today to get around paywalls.

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