No information is sent . It ' s an HTTP GET . It ' s to check if there ' s working internet access . It also does DNS probes , but an HTTP request is necessary to trigger captive portals . I don ' t know what other operating systems do . It ' s increasingly important as everything moves to HTTPS because that will only produce certificate errors . Captive portals are horrible . <| sep |> So pretty ! <| sep |> You ' ve come to the right place . Link it here or pm me . You ' d get more responses if you just link it here though <| sep |> I remember when the front page would have pretty much an all fresh page of content every 4 hours or so . Now I see the same stuff for 24 hours or more lol . <| sep |> I liked the production values does that sound a bit naff ? . Anyway . I think it looks good and look forward to seeing more .