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Re:Runs on your OpenWrt box: AdGuard Home is network-wide bl... by drewg123 on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @12:27PM (#39277395)
I love NextDNS.

The one (fairly huge) issue that I have is that it cannot handle captive portals when its enabled on my iPhone. So if I'm joining the wifi on a plane, etc, I need to remember to turn it off. This means that I cannot recommend it to my non-technical friends.

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Re:Runs on your OpenWrt box: AdGuard Home is network-wide bl... by air7 on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @03:25PM (#39280059)
A general trick for bringing up the captive portal manually is to browse to a non ssl url such as http://example.com

The portal would unapologeticly mitm the server response with a redirect to the portal login page.

The domain needs to exist (to pass DNS) and not have HSTS, but otherwise any address will do.

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Re:Runs on your OpenWrt box: AdGuard Home is network-wide bl... by ssklash on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @03:31PM (#39280133)
http://neverssl.com/ is my go-to for this.
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Re:Runs on your OpenWrt box: AdGuard Home is network-wide bl... by scosman on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @04:59PM (#39281313)
Not http://nevertls.com ?
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Re:Runs on your OpenWrt box: AdGuard Home is network-wide bl... by hn_go_brrrrr on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @02:16AM (#39285523)
Or http://gstatic.com/generate_204?
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Re:Runs on your OpenWrt box: AdGuard Home is network-wide bl... by maronato on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @12:40PM (#39277604)
I’ve been using NextDNS for a little while and don’t remember having issues with captive portals on my iPhone. Maybe something changed?
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Re:Runs on your OpenWrt box: AdGuard Home is network-wide bl... by hipsterstal1n on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @12:51PM (#39277755)
Most likely it's due to the different lists you can add or use on NextDNS. I also have issues with captive portals (I run a number of lists on NextDNS) and I just flip it off and on when I need to.
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Re:Runs on your OpenWrt box: AdGuard Home is network-wide bl... by mbesto on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @01:00PM (#39277891)
Interesting. I've had the same issues. Is there a captive portal whitelist somewhere?
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Re:Runs on your OpenWrt box: AdGuard Home is network-wide bl... by drewg123 on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @01:52PM (#39278722)
I just checked, and I don't use any lists, except for an allow list I just started with captive portal domains. Eg .aainflight.com, .captive.apple.com, etc
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