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Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by chaxor »

wrs wrote: post #16
jacurtis wrote: 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.

Maybe they rewrite it in Rust :)

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by dist-epoch »

ethanbond wrote: post #2

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 think the captchas will soon get much easier.

CAPTCHA: Say something bad about Biden

ANSWER: I'm sorry, but as a large language model ...

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by TobyTheDog123 »

prepend wrote: post #22
EscapeFromNY wrote: post #19

Why would a bot ever log into HBO Max anyway? Everything is uploaded to torrent sites the day of release, and it's not bots doing the uploading.

They don’t want aggregator apps to log in without paying. Appletv will show me new shows on multiple platforms all on one screen. HBO doesn’t want people doing this without paying. It’s stupid and anti-user.

>HBO doesn’t want people doing this without paying.

But why (from their perspective)?

They don't make their money from metadata, they make it from content. Every piece of real monkey-making content is going to get a torrent regardless of if it's protected behind a captcha.

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by ardit33 »

The HBO MAX (aka just MAX now) in PS4 is just a disaster. Can't play videos anymore, as it gets stuck on a infinite loop in the intro of every movie.

It the remaining time is displayed as a negative integer, and for some reason the system just thinks the move is done and resets it to the beginning.

Seems like a bug that some very basic QA testing should have caught it.

The new rollout seems like a total clown show, and unfortunately it ruined the service and made it impossible for me to view movies, unless it is from a laptop.

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by olyjohn »

prepend wrote: post #22
EscapeFromNY wrote: post #19

Why would a bot ever log into HBO Max anyway? Everything is uploaded to torrent sites the day of release, and it's not bots doing the uploading.

They don’t want aggregator apps to log in without paying. Appletv will show me new shows on multiple platforms all on one screen. HBO doesn’t want people doing this without paying. It’s stupid and anti-user.

An aggregator won't just buy a $12/mo account and use a real login?

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by cdme »

Time's a flat circle. We've reinvented cable and have it delivered via the internet. The quality of the content has fallen off now that folks have been roped into the platforms and everything's getting bundled back up so you have to subsidize garbage just to watch a show or two you like per platform.

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by wackget »

Borgz wrote: post #23

This is Arkose MatchKey. Hopefully, they will one day fix the UI covering the images. https://www.arkoselabs.com/arkose-matchkey/

The entire site is an exercise in delusion and marketing bullshit. I am absolutely convinced that the people selling this abomination of a product have either never used it themselves or are abjectly and wilfully misleading people.

Some other choice quotes from the page:

> Users have a bad association with difficult photo CAPTCHAs.

> Instead of type what you hear (or alphanumerics) puzzles, we ask users simple questions using delightful and amusing scenarios

> All are incredibly easy for legitimate users

> Every Arkose MatchKey challenge is tested on humans. We release challenges only when they meet very strict usability benchmarks. Our strongest puzzles, designed for bad actors, have no impact on good user completion-rates.

> In fact, Arkose MatchKey is the strongest CAPTCHA ever made.

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