Can you free yourself from captive.apple.com?

Wi-Fi portals use an ugly hack to intercept a connection when the venue wants you to either pay, log in with an account, or accept terms before using a free network. When you select the Wi-Fi network, your Mac or iOS (or other) device receives a legitimate local network address, but the hack—which dates back about two decades now—hijacks DNS (domain name system) queries.This means that when your device looks up a site to which you’re trying to connect, instead of returning the