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"example.com" has been my go-to. Impossible to forget. On the other hand, they don't guarantee that they won't implement an HTTPS redirect someday. Seems like
by antsar 7y ago
"example.com" has been my go-to. Impossible to forget.
On the other hand, they don't guarantee that they won't implement an HTTPS redirect someday. Seems like that's the major selling point here.
I wonder how this site is funded. They have the ability to gather (presumably valuable) statistics on WiFi hotspot usage...
- jen20 7y agoLooking at DNS and the resolved Its, it's hosted via CloudFront and (I'd imagine) an S3 bucket. On the other hand, the creator is a fairly prominent employee of AWS, so that's hardly surprising. The only tracker on the page is from Twitter (for the follow button). I don't know what metrics they give you, but other than that it looks to be whatever can be grabbed from the server side logs. I've been using this for several years now both to test internet connectivity and to force captive portals to load - I didn't know about example.com until today though!