Captive portals

[David27]

Does Malwarebytes Privacy VPN work automatically with Wifi captive portals?

Edited May 11, 2022 by David27

[AdvancedSetup]

A Captive Portal is just webpage isolation if you will that must be authorized before the system you're logging onto will provide you with a public IP address in most cases.

Unfortunately, you typically will not be able to use any VPN for such a system, until after you are authorized. At that point, you can then enable the VPN

 

[David27]

I was reading that some VPNs automatically turn off and on for captive portals, I hoed it could be the case. Maybe an ideia for the future...

[AdvancedSetup]

Please provide a link to one. I've used several of the bigger name products over the years and none of them support this automatically, at least at the time I was using them.

Thanks

 

[David27]

3 hours ago, AdvancedSetup said:

Please provide a link to one. I've used several of the bigger name products over the years and none of them support this automatically, at least at the time I was using them.

Thanks

 

https://speedify.com/blog/fast-bonding-vpn/how-to-use-always-on-vpn-captive-portals/

 

[AdvancedSetup]

That is a phone only using dual networks basically. Which is not related to computers. You're still actually not secure at some point because you still have to switch the connection over at some point, though a kill switch could block all access while it switches over.