> bc it benefits Google I doubt this is the reason. It seems more likely that no one has bothered to fix it. I agree that captive portals are a big hack with p

> bc it benefits Google I doubt this is the reason. It seems more likely that no one has bothered to fix it. I agree that captive portals are a big hack with poor UX. This auto-detection does mitigate it but it is still very annoying especially if you have secure setups like encrypted DNS so the basic hijacking doesn't work properly.