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I was sitting in a coffee shop on Saturday in Chicago, and decided to log in to their wifi. It was a captive portal that basically said something like “Hey,
we’re giving you this service for free, because we’re [the coffee shop] awesome!”. To log in I just needed to click a button to continue. The point here, I think, is that the coffee shop is providing this as a service to you, and wants you to know that. I’m not sure how much that is worth to them,
but it’s an example of something that isn’t just ToS, and wasn’t terribly intrusive. From: Captive-portals [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of David Bird My opinion is that guessing why venues put up a portal isn't always that useful. The point is, they
have a reason. In some countries, there are legal requirements to display ToS. While we could try to implement ways around ToS type portals, are we helping the venue be more compliant? In all jurisdictions? (Some laws *require* the ToS is displayed *every
time*). For some locations, they may simply WANT to annoy you! (While also collecting per session fees from Boingo or iPass for the privileged of skipping that annoying portal.) More than likely, however, sites like the one you mentioned are just
themselves concerned about liability and want that minimal amount of disclaimer... As a user, you should either be willing to view the portal, pay for ease of use, or find another network... David On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]> wrote: On Tue, 4 Apr 2017, David Bird wrote: The one area I do see value in solving is how to get headless IoT devices on-line on capport networks.. But, in some ways, all we need their is a WISPr client in the device and an out-of-band way of configuring credentials into it. That
can be solved with existing protocols and technologies.
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