1 [[!meta title="Logging in to captive portals"]]
3 Many publicly accessible Internet connections (usually available
4 through a wireless network connection) require its users to register
5 and login in order to get access to the Internet. This include both
6 free and paid for services that may be found at Internet cafés,
7 libraries, airports, hotels, universities etc. Normally in these
8 situations, a so called *captive portal* intercepts any website
9 request made and redirects the web browser to a login page. None of
10 that works when Tor is used, so a browser with unrestricted network
13 Tails includes an <span class="application">Unsafe Browser</span> for this
14 purpose, and it can be started via the menu
15 <span class="menuchoice">
16 <span class="guimenu">Applications</span> ▸
17 <span class="guisubmenu">Internet</span> ▸
18 <span class="guimenuitem">Unsafe Web Browser</span></span>.
20 The <span class="application">Unsafe Browser</span> has a red and yellow theme
21 to differentiate it from [[<span class="application">Tor Browser</span>|Tor_Browser]].
25 <p><strong>The <span class="application">Unsafe Browser</span> is not
26 anonymous</strong>. Use it only to log in to captive portals.</p>
32 <p>As a consequence, if you download files using the <span
33 class="application">Unsafe Browser</span> it is not possible to access
34 them outside of the <span class="application">Unsafe Browser</span>
39 Security recommendations:
41 * Do not run this browser at the same time as the anonymous
42 [[<span class="application">Tor Browser</span>|Tor_Browser]]. This makes it easy to not mistake one browser for the
43 other, which could have catastrophic consequences.
45 * When using [[doc/first_steps/startup_options/windows_camouflage]]
46 the red theme is disabled in order to raise less suspicion. It is
47 still possible to quietly identify the <span class="application">Unsafe
48 Browser</span> since it has
49 English Wikipedia as its default (and only) search engine in the
50 navigation toolbar. The lack of the onion icon
51 is another such visual reminder.