6-Months Max (HBO Max) w/ Ads Subscription for New/Returning Subscribers Expired

Yes! Please fix the title, OP. I wouldn't have clicked on this had I known it was $18 for 6 months.

Or contact that IT person we all know and ask for access to their Plex server.

Dead, no?

I don't think HBO is worth paying anything. Adds are placed always in the most engaging scene, they are not equally spread throughout the movie. More and longer adds in the most intense moment. VERY annoying. I had it 6 months with adds upon introduction, then upgraded to add free. I had it for two years paying $15/month until the re-branding. Now it has been stripped from older content, because content owners have their own streaming services. Anything new is politically correct and not interesting in general. Disney is the same. Ad based Netflix the same. The non-add 4k Netflix has from time to time something, but honestly nothing worth paying $20 for. It does have enough older content and documentaries though. Paramount - once you finish MI movies nothing more to watch. STARZ is kinda OK because they try to add new content and they have SONY studios movies, but not worth paying longer than 4-5 months. Hulu has sporadically some staff to watch. Amazon Video - Prime at $150ish is not worth it for me, but I have Costco and other nearby retailers to choose from. After a decade of using Prime i stopped it. If it's student price, makes some sense. Full price - No sense. Usually same content as Netflix, Amazon original content is not so originally politically correct. Worthless stories, no plot.
The US streaming service above I had all on extreme discounts or free bundles. Even at $1-3 /month they are not worth it. Waste of time.
At this point I pay full price only for Discovery+ and a $10/month European TV stream service (which streams hundreds of TV channels btw including several dozen sports ). Netflix is worth if found on discount like the Verizon deal for ~ $5-6/month for the full 4K service.

Can you expand on what this straming service is called? Thanks!

Does anyone know if using MAX through Kodi removes the ads? I know with Hulu it does. Thanks

I'm using mytv.bg service. It's a regional Bulgarian TV streamer with European channels including sports. There are similar streaming services localized in other EU countries - google is your friend. And of coarse , tons of streaming choices from India , with many sport channels .