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There is a long standing technical solution, though it's not widely implemented, WPA-enterprise. With WPA-enterprise I have my own personal key and I am automatically logged in. In the UK, "The Cloud" service offers this, which is many coffee shops and similar public places.

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There is overhead. WPA2 Enterprise does not have a signup mechanism; you'd neee to run that on a separate SSID. Now you have to get people to join the appropriate SSID for what they want. Also unless you have a corporate managed device with the company CA installed, you have to click through scary certificate warnings.

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