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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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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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