Their software has always been infuriating to use, matched only be any streaming service the NFL provides on Apple TV
HBO Max new Captcha system
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#122Why 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.
torrent uploads dont just come from magic fairies. I write tools to download from sites like this, and it helps if you can automate the login process.
its not strictly required, as in most cases you could just save cookies or similar locally, but weaker login systems are preferred.
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#123Computers and everything related to them should be all about helping me, but I have to spend even more time on idiocies like this, because I have to prove I'm not a bot... I have to accept the cookie monster bullshit everywhere, or I have to mark bicycles or fire hoses because google is so high up in its own back orifice it didn't have time with their 10K+ topnotch engineers to modernize their shit.
And these... I think epicgames also uses this horrible system, and I was on the brink of smashing something in the room, when I saw it.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Serious question: who has a decent plan to create proof-of-human systems that are not only CAPTCHA based? We will soon need this, and I feel government will gladly present a solution: provide your ID when you connect to the Internet, and we will guarantee you are a human. Who's actually working on this and has released papers I can study? Because all this AI nonsense will only accelerate us towards this total control…
> Serious question: who has a decent plan to create proof-of-human systems that are not only CAPTCHA based? > We will soon need this, and I feel government will gladly present a solution: provide your ID when you connect to the Internet, and we will guarantee you are a human.' I'm extremely hesitant to give any State the ability to track an individual user's online activity that intensely. It's been extensively docum…
this is the second plug i've seen today for mCaptcha. and i can see the utility, i've actually got a spot where it would be perfect and plan to implement it.
but it's absolutely not a captcha: it is not a test to tell humans and computers apart. it's a test that can only be completed by a computer. its only utility is to be expensive. it's not a test to determine if there's a human behind the computer, it's only a test to determine if the computer has more resources than it currently needs, and can tolerate wasting some of them for a while.
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#125I 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.
My oldish LG TV had an HBO Max app but it wasn't available in my area due to exclusivity agreements. In order to grab it, I had to change the region of my TV before going to the app store. This workaround is not required for the new app, I can just straight-up grab it. I wonder if rebranding with a new app allowed HBO to worm out of agreements like this?
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#126I 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 have a BS in Computer Science and I can't do basic math reliably... 3+4? About 10. Is that something they teach in grad school?
Of course that’s correct, assuming you are working in base 7.
As for your second question, yes.
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#127I 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.
Didn't they already do that? They used to have HBO Go and HBO Now and I believe one of those became HBO Max and they sunset the other one.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Some it was probably "this gives us an excuse to rewrite the system, but better this time!" Rebranding often gives a certain amount of cover to do things you want to do even if you don't have to do it. Often new management wants to put their stamp on things. I've been in situations where we've had to do major redesigns because a new leader wanted to leave their mark. I've been in situations where each new leader want…
Rewriting doesn't require a new listing on really any of these platforms. They could have rewritten every single thing and still made it an update.
I'm guessing there was some contractual thing (perhaps cable related) around the HBO name or else someone made a very poor choice.
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#129Correction: it's just Max now, not HBO Max. Moderators, can we look at fixing up the title here so it's more accurate?
Was it really worth expending the energy to backseat moderate this?
Just trying to make sure our community remains the greatest online tech forum in the world :)
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Inverse captcha: Fill out the tax form for the country from the connecting IP. If you can do it, you're an AI.
That solution just shows how bad the US tax system is, and most in Europe won't pass this (because it's already prefilled by their tax agencies or automatically witheld from their salaries).
I'm in Germany ... :-)