Agreed. The wireless (and wired) login/ToS page redirects common in guest Wifi and corporate environments were never really designed for. They work now by abusi

Agreed. The wireless (and wired) login/ToS page redirects common in guest Wifi and corporate environments were never really designed for. They work now by abusing what are essentially design flaws, and they don't even work very well. Another glaring hole in Wifi is that there's no open + encrypted option. Your options are basically open with no encryption at all, personal mode (shared key for authentication and encryption), or enterprise mode (username + password, certificate-based, or similar). The Wifi authentication standards should really be modernized to address these issues.