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.
Maybe check stolen accounts?
HBO Max new Captcha system
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#22Why 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.
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#23This is Arkose MatchKey. Hopefully, they will one day fix the UI covering the images.
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#24I 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.
organizational politics
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#25Some people miss the old user interfaces. Windows 95, XP, 2000 etc. What is the reason? We had some programs with a horrible interface (Real Player, for example), but never with this level of stupidity.
It's more of a joke than an interface, like reddit's competition for the worst volume control: https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world...
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#26Microsoft's captchas are pretty horrendous too. I gave up on them and did the audio captchas also, just like in the video.
Not to mention the dire login redirection from Microsoft services that messes up your browser's back button... ugh.
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#27So the options are: basic ocr and arithmetic, and performing a Fourier transform?
Both that that computers are very good at, and have been good at for decades now?
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#28I 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 too. im pretty sure my browser redirected from hbo to the new url and auo-logined. I make exceptionsfor sites I pay. I came to thread expecting an explanation of a background captcha.
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#29I 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.
They merged with Discovery.
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#30Well that’s one way to get to front page of HN …