Shitty new captive portals are a new form of enshitification. Captive portals are getting so fancy that they are dysfunctional on old phones. They managed to fuck up the simple task of merely presenting a button that basically says “I agree not to shit on your network”.

It’s really infuriating to be on a bus or train for hours, unable to use Wi-Fi to plan your trip because some jackass dipshit coded a captive portal that assumes everyone is a pushover who continously buys recent phones, when all they need is to render a fucking button or tickbox.

I am betting that the clueless pricks behind the captive portals have enough incompetence that DNS traffic gets through. But for that to work you must run a server for the purpose of serving AndIodine. So it would be useful if some Tor entry nodes supported DNS traffic.

Captive portals are a form of oppression against people with old phones or non-standard software, esp. those w/out GUI browsers. I believe an anti-obsolescence mission to support people with old phones or non-standard software would be compatible with Tor Project’s principles.

A DNS bridge would be useful in other situations as well, such as where Tor is blocked deliberately. Normal traffic is slow over DNS, so Tor client could treat it as a last resort by attempting DNS after X number of connection failures. It would generally overall increase the availability of Tor access.