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I hate Wi-Fi landing pages, you hate Wi-Fi landing pages, and guess what? The firewall also hates landing pages.
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this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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Another super pointless thing in our life that is only this bad because of IP laws and the multimedia industry.
Not quite. Even if copyright didn't exist, they still would block porn etc. I even encountered a Wi-Fi network where YouTube videos worked except those with content warnings (such as mentions of self-harm). I wonder how that can be done despite HTTPS - maybe the questionable videos have a different domain? I should have investigated the issue more but NewPipe made it seem like the video had been taken down so I just assumed that was the case. (It was at a train station in southern Bavaria, most likely Wangen im Allgäu. I was there only once.)
Modern firewalls are man-in-the-middle attacks.
Captive portals are effectively MitM but that's why they only work on HTTP (notice the crossed-out lock icon).