Once you learn the habbit of navigating to neverssl.com as soon as you connect to a public WiFi network to force the captive portal/auth you'll usually not have any issues with it unless the WiFi network itself sucks.
I usually use notpurple.com for this (I used to use purple.com until the guy finally sold the domain to the mattress company), but I suppose there's no guarantee the notpurple person won't some day add ssl.
Thanks for the tip.
Wow, I’ll have to remember that. I always am fumbling to get to an http site to redirect when I go on the train or somewhere.
I use example.com or example.org, which seems to work just fine also.
Thank you nice site tip! One after one my goto http sites adds a s.
Haha. Great to see more websites using SSL encryption but it does make it harder to connect to public WiFi if the OS's captive portal detection doesn't trigger properly.