Walmart

[K8DFI]

As most of us know, Walmart used to sell most any gun and ammo that you may want. They have narrowed that down to basic rifles and shotguns and matching ammo. Now, as I'm sitting out behind the auto service area with my dog as the oil was being changed in my wifes car, I went to get on this site and it was blocked by Walmarts WiFi because it was associated with guns. Seems weird to me that you sell guns and ammo, but your WiFi blocks internet access to anything associated with guns. 

[i1afli]

Probably to prevent employees from hanging out on this site all day. 

[ken_mays]

It's all about liability these days.   Most places with publicly accessible wifi use some sort of web filtering to restrict objectionable or questionable content.    To let people access something like hacking or movie pirating sites would open you up to all kinds of liability.   The place I work had a guest wifi setup years ago, and we actually got a cease and desist letter from RIAA because someone used it to watch a pirated movie from some sketchy website.

[analog_kidd]

I recently started using a service called Tailscale to provide a VPN connection back into my house. You can enable a setting called an Exit Node, and then when you make the VPN connection, you can choose to use the exit node. The exit node passes the traffic back into your house and then back out to the internet from the PC inside your home. To the world, it looks like you are browsing from your home PC. All of this enables encryption from your phone back to your home network, so if you connect to a sketchy WiFi, they can't snoop on your traffic. Walmart would have no idea what site you are browsing.

It sounds complicated, but it really wasn't. I enabled it all in like 15 minutes, and it was so easy I was like "That's it??" The service is free for X number of devices. I forget how many, but it was more devices than I own, and I'm nerdy.