Oh for fucks sake.
What the fuck is Humble doing?
You’d think that a service that prides itself on supporting charities, and calls itself ‘humble’, should naturally be more reasonable.
Nope. With every month it’s becoming clearer and clearer it was never about charities. Just money.
Looks like I’ll be deleting my account as soon as I get to my PC.
Update: There’s no option to delete your account on the new website. There’s also no mention of deleting an account on the Humble Support page. Guess they expected people will be doing it.
Update 2: You can submit a request to have your account deleted on the Submit a request page. Select ‘Humble Bundle Account’, and then ‘Delete Account’.
Once you submit the request, you’ll get an email verification, because Humble needs to “verify that you are the owner of this email address”.
Currently I can login to my account and change the password with no verification, despite previously having 2FA enabled. But as soon as I want to delete it, a verification becomes necessary. Interesting, isn’t it?
Humble was sold to IGN in 2017. Just to accurate set expectations.
You would hope with all the fucking AI slop code being deployed that TESTING and QA would be having a Renaissance.
You would HOPE.
Quite literally you could set up a workflow where AI automatically fixes bugs based on QA findings unless it’s determined that an engineer’s input is required, but it seems nobody wants to do that either.
Hang on, I did just get an idea for an AI SaaS to sell to enterprises lmao
Big brains let AI do the TESTING and QA as well.
But AI has solved coding, why would you need to test something that you know will just work?
Yep, we could have kept the velocity and used AI to make things much more robust, but no, let’s just throw even more shit at the wall.
The penny pincher companies that think they can replace a 80k / year dev with AI are DEFINITELY not doing any testing, my friend…
I just went and had a look and it’s even worse than I expected. No 2FA and the login process is: asks for username > have to click the thing to confirm you’re not a robot > do you want to use your password or some other bullshit? > click the thing to confirm you’re not a robot > enter password > click the thing to confirm you’re not a robot. So twice as annoying as having to use 2FA without any security benefit. Some menus and items in the menus just straight up don’t work. It doesn’t even look nicer at all. And they’re currently selling a book bundle about AI Cybersecurity lol.
They did add a way to download the entire contents of a bundle in a single zip file, instead of a gazillion separate downloads.
This will make getting all my content off easier for the inevitable closure of their site.
^ excepting the reports in this thread stating that it is broken, too.
Yeah it’s shit. I can barely get it to work downloading eBook bundles.
I don’t share many of the same criticisms of HumbleBundle as most, and have been a happy subscriber for a long time.
But wow this shit is unacceptable. Straight up removed 2FA without any notification, allow passwords changes without any security. Insane. I will be cancelling my subscription for the first time in over a decade, this is truly inexcusable security fuck up.
Yeah, same. What the hell!?
Have they fixed it as I just logged in with 2fa
It seems like they only implemented email MFA, but I don’t have the option to use my TOTP MFA code
Ah I see. Yes mine has always been email method.
Same, I’ve had TOTP setup for… a decade(?) with them?
Very very cool that they just change security settings without notifying. /s
For context: Humble Bundle was acquired by IGN in 2017 and the founders are no longer involved.
And IGN is ultimately owned by Ziff Davis.
You’re saying thats a real guy and not a Saturday morning cartoon character?
Its a Corporation
Spaceman Ziff.
That’s when I stopped using Humble Bundle. They ruined the site / service.
Exactly. At some point it was a wonderful DRM free store and then became a steam/epic games retailer.
I have literally been spending my free time this week tightnig up my online date. Calling up and emailing custermer supports telling them to deletw my data and accounts.
Am i hearing i have to get the codes for love ke 5 years of bundles and delete my humble account!?
How well does this work?
I’ll let you know if i hear about a data breach at one of the sites i deleted my account at. But personally, I will think i wont ever know if this is useful or not. But this is a good mindset going forward of being more conscious of where i put my data online and how reveal myself through the use of a email across different sites.
The least i can do is use throw away emails and give them as much false info as i can get away with.
But if you asking how well account deletion works, some will delete everything, but most will just “deactivate” whatever that means. And some still that had money go through them are usually legally required to hold onto something for a number of tax years.
I think doing thisis better than nothing
Just cancelled my membership as well. As others have noted already, they’ve gone waaaay downhill since the IGN purchase last decade. I would normally just skip a month as sometimes they’d have one or two games I had fleeting interest in. I am beyond sick of vibe/slop coded crap and I wish I could snap my fingers to erase it all.
I guess I need to go through and claim the dozens of old codes for games that weren’t the reason I got the bundle. I used to use them to trade, but I haven’t really bothered with that since Valve took away the ability to buy gift games as inventory items. If Humble is about to choke, though, better get what I can.
On the bright side, it only made me confirm cancelling Humble Choice once, instead of the usual 4 times or whatever.
It’s downright unusable. Had to pass multiple Cloudflare captchas to log in, but no 2-factor. The library only shows 5 items at a time now, so it’s 500 pages long for me, which I can’t even sort to only show unredeemed items. Order history just shows order numbers and I have to click on each item to see what I actually ordered. UI elements are randomly strewn about, with no coherent design. WTF Humble.
Bulk download does not seem to work either. I bought the recent crochet bundle and went to bulk download the book and it just failed.
True, just tried it and it’s the same for all the book bundles I bought. Insane of them to push something so broken and untested.
the library has a subsection for bundles, and opening a bundle shows which keys are redeemed or not. But yea, not really as usable as it was before. I guess 5 rows at a time fits nicely on phone screen, but… is that really the use case here?
The bundles page also doesn’t show Humble Choice bundles though, so those keys are buried somewhere in the neverending list. I have to click past 9 pages just to get past the latest bundle I bought (Mapmaking Bundle).
somebody forgot to prompt it with “no errors”… /s
but fr: the only good part about humble bundle in the last couple of years has been the flood of cheap keys on the aftermarket
That implies the Ai made the mistake. But the human probably never prompted and thought or tested for security. If anything, they forgot to prompt “make it secure”.
Hopefully the deletion process is secure…
