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.

 

[Tscheddov]

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.

cool, thanks for the tip.

i use firefox, where/ how do i edit the "md-limit-data" entry? how do i find it in local storage ?

 

[wiz_gmc]

cool, thanks for the tip.

i use firefox, where/ how do i edit the "md-limit-data" entry? how do i find it in local storage ?

• Open any page on the mangadex.org domain (you can only see the storage for the domain open in the tab)
• Open browser tools with Hamburger Menu + More Tools + Web Developer Tools or Ctrl+Shift+I or F12
• One of tabs in the tools is called Storage, with a filing cabinet icon
• There will be a list: Cache Storage, Cookies, Indexed DB, Local Storage, Session Storage
• The value to change is in Local Storage + https://mangadex.org/
• Look for md-limit-data:{"lastSavedAt":"2026-06-02T00:00:00.000Z","data":{"0":10,"1":0}}
• Double click the value to edit it and change the part that says "data":{"0":10,"1":0} to something like "data":{"0":-1000000,"1":0}

In the browser tools, there is also a console. If you find it easier to copy/paste scripts into that, then pasting this and hitting enter when you see the overlay will do the same thing as above.

(() => {localStorage.setItem("md-limit-data", JSON.stringify({lastSavedAt: new Date().toISOString(), data: {"0": Number.MIN_SAFE_INTEGER, "1": 0}}));})()

 

[ireadit]

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.

uBlock Origin has a nifty resources library that can do all kinds of things, like setting/removing local storage items, too. You can also modify the response of the MangaDex feature flags endpoint (https://api.mangadex.org/feature-flags), which has... interesting... effects.

 

[Tscheddov]

uBlock Origin has a nifty resources library that can do all kinds of things, like setting/removing local storage items, too. You can also modify the response of the MangaDex feature flags endpoint (https://api.mangadex.org/feature-flags), which has... interesting... effects.

what are those interesting effects ? (sorry i am not very knowledgable when it comes to this kind of stuff)

 

[ireadit]

what are those interesting effects ? (sorry i am not very knowledgable when it comes to this kind of stuff)

You could (purely hypothetically) tamper with the value of feature flags like for example... Hmmm... Maybe _SO_SITEWIDE_EMBEDDED_ADS? No clue why someone would do that, though!