AI Ads are back again. Can we please stop with the slop?

[mzingalwa]

Title. I could have sworn the site-runners said they weren't gonna have AI slop ads any more.

 

[BestBoy]

an entirely new, different attempt, not a fuckup

Correct, the advertising team were paid for a 6 hour ad spot.

 

[Mangamoz]

Correct, the advertising team were paid for a 6 hour ad spot.

No mentions of them not doing it again? Cause if not, they are SO gonna do it again when the piggy bank gets empty.

Which seems to be around end of month. Keep an eye out for end of June to see what happens.

 

[BestBoy]

No mentions of them not doing it again

Not this time. I'm guessing Barto wrote a check he couldn't cash last time. If you catch my drift.

 

[homogenized]

I'm still seeing it. Maybe they're only turning it off for the accounts that complain?

EDIT: Or not.

 

[Hicleric]

Fear not, for they seem to have restored the ad so they can show them haters wrong make a timely announcement about the change in policy

 

[BakedBanana]

Fear not, for they seem to have restored the ad so they can show them haters wrong make a timely announcement about the change in policy

Why stop there? They should go all in and put both versions on the front page.

 

[KatalinaDaze]

They're really doing this again, huh?

 

[PhoenixDen]

Clearly not concerned about the actual viewers. Might be time to move to a different website in the near future somehow. That, or let this one die before it's ruined.

 

[BestBoy]

Why stop there? They should go all in and put both versions on the front page.

Just refresh your page a couple times and it'll switch between the two. So maybe it is the exact same ad.

 

[Mangamoz]

Clearly not concerned about the actual viewers. Might be time to move to a different website in the near future somehow. That, or let this one die before it's ruined.

Problem is that this site "was" one of the last ones that didn't throw ads in your face.

 

[BakedBanana]

Just refresh your page a couple times and it'll switch between the two. So maybe it is the exact same ad.

Wait, it does. I swear earlier it was only the AI girl one.. Did they update it or did I just not notice?

 

[girlrotting]

i genuinely wonder how much traffic that ad could possibly be getting when you're like three clicks away from Advanced Search Content Rating: Mature and you don't even need to leave the site for it

 

[girlrotting]

regardless. i don't even really mind the porn ad but the only ai slop i consume is between my robot girlfriends legs. amen ❤️ hope it gets removed again for realsies

 

[jeezits]

AI slop adult website, truly the best possible ad.
But i think they tried to handwave the last time with being a one day experiment

Oh look they lied, what a shock. Who could have imagined that from people willing to associate with slop?

Guess when the coding on the website goes to shit we'll all know why.

 

[Arxile]

Use uBlock filters:

Thanks.

Grats on escaping my list of sites where I don't block ads, MD, nice work. I know operating costs exist but I'd frankly rather MD throttled traffic to meet budget than ran predatory AI (porn?) ads. The cure is worse than the disease.

 

[SprinKah]

This happened before, like damn dude.

Unsure if it's ez cashgrab sellout or sth else, but it really ain't a good look for the site.

 

[Tscheddov]

Use uBlock filters:

is there a ublock filter for the >you reached your daily chapter limit< overlay for not logged in users too ?

 

[asbun123]

This happened before, like damn dude.

Unsure if it's ez cashgrab sellout or sth else, but it really ain't a good look for the site.

The top management and their Legal Nexus™ don't see this as a problem. Lmao

 

[Doedoel]

is there a ublock filter for the >you reached your daily chapter limit< overlay for not logged in users too ?

There's such a thing?

 

[wiz_gmc]

is there a ublock filter for the >you reached your daily chapter limit< overlay for not logged in users too ?

I have been feeling conflicted about bypassing the sign-in requirement. However, while the pretense remains that the limit exists to prevent bots and scrapers I guess no one should see anything wrong with a subset of human users using alternative circumvention to get around that limit.
If we consider this post, it seems like it's actually a benefit to MangaDex if you bypass the sign-in requirement.

So with that said, anyone who isn't a bot or a scraper and has uBlock Origin, could try this:

mangadex.org##[data-v-184db84a][data-v-c6e0a7e2]

It works for me, but I don't know how universal those two keys are.

People who aren't bots or scrapers that have an extension to run javascript automatically could set it up to run this script whenever a chapter loads.

localStorage.removeItem("md-limit-data");

Humans, not bots or scrapers, that use a browser with browser tools, can manually edit the "md-limit-data" entry in their local storage. The website doesn't check if the chapter count is less than 0, so you can set it to -1000 to read 1010 chapters in a day. It does still reset to 0 every day, so it's not completely automatic.