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You don't use a lot of hotel, airplane, airport, guest or otherwise captive portals do you? Most will gracefully redirect but a lot are painful. Add in things like HSTS (can't just go to Google), HTTPS Everywhere, etc and it's downright annoying to get to the portal.

NeverSSL is a huge frustration reducer, especially as I've been able to just tell less technical able co-workers to just go there.

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Never had any issues typing http://google.com manually and having that get redirected to the capture portals. Obviously you have to specify the protocol otherwise modern browsers will try https first.

One trick that often works at hotels is to enter the hotel's domain name, which typically has an entry in the wifi DNS. I don't know how that works related to SSL, I just know it often solves the problem.

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