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Why is it that popular browsers do not allow users to manually disable the behaviour that necessitates this apparently common workaround.^1 Is this another example of "tech" company paternalism.

1. Examples

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/149852/how-legi...

https://zapier.com/blog/open-wifi-login-page/

http://www.my80211.com/home/2012/7/23/web-auth-redirect-does...

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> Why is it that popular browsers do not allow users to manually disable the behaviour that necessitates this workaround.

Probably the number of people that care about overriding this behavior could be counted on one hand.

> Is this another example of "tech" company paternalism.

No.