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Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Did a bit at online fashion retailer Net a porter a while back, and they rolled their own ‘domain specific’ captcha that had you do things like "select the cuff links". I think it was pretty dynamically powered by their live catalogue.

Once during development I got a captcha that said "select the glasses" where my options was a photo of sunglasses, or a pair of glass drinking cups.

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I was cracking up when it started playing the bagpipes.

I don't think its too much of an exaggeration to say this is what happens when security teams don't receive enough pushback from the higher ups or from other teams. I see this all the time in large big tech companies.

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I experienced the HBO Max captchas just a few days ago. Everyone did since they launched a new app and made everyone switch to that and re-login. Some of the solutions are clearly just wrong. I have a PhD in Computer Science and if I am failing multiple basic addition problems, I assure you that it isn't me, the answers are wrong. I had to do the same audio puzzles and got the first audio puzzle wrong too, and I even…

My login rolled over to the new app without doing anything.

Mine did that on the AppleTV but not the web. I have aggressive cookie blocking in my browser though, so maybe it is just me.

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post #9

I experienced the HBO Max captchas just a few days ago. Everyone did since they launched a new app and made everyone switch to that and re-login. Some of the solutions are clearly just wrong. I have a PhD in Computer Science and if I am failing multiple basic addition problems, I assure you that it isn't me, the answers are wrong. I had to do the same audio puzzles and got the first audio puzzle wrong too, and I even…

I am baffled as to why they had to launch an entirely new app rather than just rename the existing one. Could Apple have made them change the bundle ID? It's like they're putting in deliberate obstacles for existing subscribers.

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This is going to be one of the best parts of the new AI-ridden world: humans gradually getting locked out of and giving up on online services because the bots are more patient and more skilled at proving their humanness than humans are. Twitter’s new captchas are also pretty insane, though not quite this bad last I ran into them.

Inverse captcha: Fill out the tax form for the country from the connecting IP. If you can do it, you're an AI.

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

#18

This is going to be one of the best parts of the new AI-ridden world: humans gradually getting locked out of and giving up on online services because the bots are more patient and more skilled at proving their humanness than humans are. Twitter’s new captchas are also pretty insane, though not quite this bad last I ran into them.

I joked about this years ago: https://twitter.com/lapcatsoftware/status/771857826130034688
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