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At this point, for me, any reason to dump Google is a good reason.
This is highly deceptive, and is actually worse than Apple staff implying macos can't get viruses
Even Ubuntu and Debian do connectivity checks. Firefox does too: http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt .
There's lots of valid things you could tell them, so why lie? Other people can easily prove it wrong..
They lie because it's not about the truth. It's about the clout.
Who's lying? I'm confused.