If I had access to a time machine, while I'd certainly kill Hitler and Stalin first and second, whoever invented the concept of a "captive portal" would end up

If I had access to a time machine, while I'd certainly kill Hitler and Stalin first and second, whoever invented the concept of a "captive portal" would end up dead before I ran out of bullets. Just a stupid idea, badly implemented. So many places turned them on not because of any actual mandate from their legal department (how many places with captive portal pages actually have 'Legal Departments', anyway?) to do so, but because the feature was there in their routers, and thus it seemed like the "safe" thing to do. And once it became the standard thing for businesses to do, suddenly every business felt the need to do it. And now, people look at you like you're crazy if you suggest setting up a Guest WiFi network without one. It's just too bad. This is literally why we can't have nice things.