Went through a lot of #Raspberry as #VPN gateway how-tos/blogs before getting it working with this one https://jankarres.de/2020/12/raspberry-pi-wlan-access-point-mit-nordvpn-vpn-router-einrichten/. Thanks to Google Translate that is. #RaspAP and the #NordVPN client took care of most of what I needed. Only addition was disabling IPv6, the NordVPN firewall and using the NordVPN DNS servers.

@mayech it appears #RaspAP some how passed the captive portal to the device's connected to the pi

So I turned my raspberry pi zero w into a WiFi VPN hotspot with #RaspAP so I can connect to public WiFi, but I can't get past the captive portal for Starbucks WiFi for example. I am going to try to ssh into the pi and use #w3m to access the portal. Any other solution's