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Re: [Captive-portals] Not good....



Martin Thomson <[email protected]> wrote:
    > On 2 April 2017 at 17:27, Michael Richardson <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> One of the things we are going to need to do is to find a way use the
    >> stick as well as the carrot when it comes to poorly behaved sites.

    > The big stick I see here is the increased use of HTTPS.  Do we really
    > need anything more?

Well, we can wish, but I don't know that it will feedback to the right place.

(On my laptop, I open a disposable firefox profile (without HTTPS
everywhere), and I have to find some site that has an http redirect.  I can
usually depend upon my city's web site to be clueless.
That's a lot of effort and I'm technically clueful.  The Freehand Chicago had
all these problems, plus their DNS was intolerant of AAAA requests.)

So I don't see HTTPS as fixing or shaming any portals; rather I just see
users getting frustrated and going someplace else without knowing why.
They don't call support; and if they do, support will ask them to "turn it
off and on", and to please try IE6.

What they might do is write a review, and this is where I think we need to do
something.

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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
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