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 the [[Tor Browser|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>
30 Security recommendations:
32 * Do not run this browser at the same time as the normal, anonymous
33 web browser. This makes it easy to not mistake one browser for the
34 other, which could have catastrophic consequences.
36 * When using [[doc/first_steps/startup_options/windows_camouflage]]
37 the red theme is disabled in order to raise less suspicion. It is
38 still possible to quietly identify the <span class="application">Unsafe
39 Browser</span> since it has
40 English Wikipedia as its default (and only) search engine in the
41 navigation toolbar. The lack of the onion icon
42 is another such visual reminder.