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Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by squeaky-clean » Tue, May 30, 2023, 4:02 AM UTC

superfrank wrote: post #127

wrs wrote: post #16

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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.

I still have the HBO Max app installed on my phone. It only displays a page that says "HBO Max is now Max" some other text and then a download button that redirects you to the app store page for the new app.

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by manigandham » Tue, May 30, 2023, 4:09 AM UTC

Had similar issues with the Google recaptcha where the question is satisfied by either all the square or none of them - both being considered a wrong answer: https://twitter.com/ManiGandham/status/1635193312264200192

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by heavyset_go » Tue, May 30, 2023, 4:12 AM UTC

manigandham wrote: post #152

Had similar issues with the Google recaptcha where the question is satisfied by either all the square or none of them - both being considered a wrong answer: https://twitter.com/ManiGandham/status/1635193312264200192

I take these situations to mean that Google has no intention of giving you access and is just trying waste your time with useless CAPTCHAs.

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by doctor_radium » Tue, May 30, 2023, 4:15 AM UTC

Zanni wrote: post #145

sph wrote: post #44

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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…

The IRS is already doing this. They used to have a password-based login system, but they're switching over to ID.me, which requires a scan of your ID and a matching selfie.

I believe the ID.me system went down in flames. Got snagged by this myself for 2021 but opted to call a number and speak to a person instead. Shortly afterwards I discovered an article suggesting my reaction wasn't unique.

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by heavyset_go » Tue, May 30, 2023, 4:15 AM UTC

hnburnsy wrote: post #66

jonathankoren wrote: post #49

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The answers being wrong hits google captcha as well. Having a computer tell me I had to call a mailbox a parking meter is right out of some sort of Forbin Project 1984 mashup. https://imgur.com/a/lcYR8n0

Was it really wrong or was Google trying to get more 'work' out of you?

Are they even getting meaningful work out of Recaptcha now? I've seen them use the same dataset for quite a while.

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by doctor_radium » Tue, May 30, 2023, 4:19 AM UTC

I really want to sell a t-shirt that reads "I didn't visit your web site to play video games".

Incidentally, my other t-shirt would read "I don't care about your stupid app".

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by Hamuko » Tue, May 30, 2023, 4:22 AM UTC

doodlesdev wrote: post #94

“Piracy is a service problem.” - Gabe Newell Also, Arkose Labs CAPTCHA (what HBO Max is using) is awful, please don't use it. There's reCAPTCHA, hCAPTCHA, mCAPTCHA, and now even Cloudflare Turnstile. Or better yet, recognize your costumers can still download the movie for free whether your service exists or not and adapt your strategy to provide them with content easier :)

Isn't hCaptcha the one that asks you "Click on all of the bicycles" and then shows a bunch of AI-generated gibberish where fucking none of them is a bicycle but you have to click on the ones that are the most bicycle-like? Because that's fucking garbage and I wish everyone using it would die in a fire.

In case someone as been lucky enough to never have used hCaptcha, it looks like this: https://twitter.com/shaunkruger/status/1660671272672722945

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by neom » Tue, May 30, 2023, 4:26 AM UTC

manigandham wrote: post #152

Had similar issues with the Google recaptcha where the question is satisfied by either all the square or none of them - both being considered a wrong answer: https://twitter.com/ManiGandham/status/1635193312264200192

I get shit like this all the time, just yesterday I got "select all the squares with stairs" and then every photo was a part of a flight of stairs... I always wonder what you're supposed to do with questions like this.

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by doctor_radium » Tue, May 30, 2023, 4:28 AM UTC

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.

> 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.

I think the fact that users are willing to give the site the finger and leave is a pretty good sign that you're human.

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by _9omd » Tue, May 30, 2023, 4:33 AM UTC

Wow, those captchas almost look like satire. On a side note, what the hell is up with branding for HBO streaming? They’ve gone from HBO GO to HBO Now to HBO Max. And now, according to ads I recently saw, it’s just Max. Talk about whiplash.