Applying sequenced instructions to connect through captive portals

A method comprising:

• detecting, by a mobile computing device, a network access point, the network access point acting as a captive portal for connecting to a network;
• requesting, from a cloud service, a sequenced instruction set associated with the detected network access point;
• receiving the requested sequenced instruction set, the received sequenced instruction set comprising instructions being derived from crowdsourced data describing interactions used by computing devices other than the mobile computing device to connect to the network through the detected network access point, the instructions generated based at least on interactions captured when the computing devices other than the mobile computing device attempt to connect to the network through the captive portal;
• automatically inserting within the received sequenced instruction set based on the captured interactions, data particular to at least one of the mobile computing device or a user of the mobile computing device, the data including user specific information used to perform the interactions;
• applying the received sequenced instruction set with the inserted data to obtain access to the network via the detected network access point;
• and
• receiving an updated version of the sequenced instruction set from the cloud service without input from the user of the mobile computing device.

Computer memory embodying computer-executable components, said components comprising:

• a tile component that when executed causes at least one processor of a mobile computing device to receive sets of sequenced instructions corresponding to at least one of a plurality of network access points and being derived from computing devices other than the mobile computing device that have used the sets of sequenced instructions to connect to the plurality of network access points;
• a communications interface component that when executed causes at least one processor to detect one of the plurality of network access points, the detected network access point acting as a captive portal to a network;
• and
• an auto-connect component that when executed causes the at least one processor to automatically insert into the received set of sequenced instructions, based at least on interactions captured when the computing devices other than the mobile computing device attempt to connect to the network through the captive portal, data particular to at least one of the mobile computing device or a user of the mobile computing device, the data including user specific information used to perform the interactions, the auto-connect component further automatically executing the set of sequenced instructions with the inserted data to obtain access to the network through the captive portal, and receive an updated version of the set of sequenced instructions from a cloud service without input from the user of the mobile computing device.