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"More reliable" than what?
When the user hits the maximum, then they've hit the maximum, regardless of what that value might be.
That's not "unreliable", that's reliable.
AFAIK, most/all paid software vendors -- Adobe, MS, the security software vendors, etc. -- use a system that, at some point, will require the user to contact support to reset activation counts.
Over the years, I've had to contact Adobe and MS for this same reason.
Personally, I've never maxed out the count on my MBAM licenses, despite multiple clean MBAM reinstalls.
But I don't reinstall Windoze every week, either.
I'm sure that the Win10 rollout (with all the upgrades/rollbacks/reinstalls/uninstalls/clean reinstalls) has added a layer of complexity to the situation.
But problems with the MS Win10 OS causing users to have to reinstall or uninstall the OS multiple times isn't something over which Malwarebytes or any software publisher has direct control.
They cannot be expected to lower their anti-piracy safeguards to accommodate MS.
And none of these systems -- regardless of the software publisher -- can be 100% error-proof.
Contacting support to reset a license is the small price one has to pay to help combat piracy.
Cheers,
MM