@programmerx Why on Earth would MD need anti-scraping protection? Aren't MD's servers overloaded enough for us to be glad that some people read on Manganelo?
Fighting the potential of the Internet to share information is a
weird idea. Taking advantage of it is much smarter.
You may notice that big movie producers in Hollywood have failed to prevent movie sharing on the Internet with huge trials and lots of DRM, whereas websites like YouTube make heaps of cash by offering video content for free with ads.
Some manga publishers also offer raws to read for free on their website, because it may be an incentive to buy paperback versions. They don't seem to get bankruptcy because of that.
Moreover, let's face technical reality: downloading chapters to read offline is convenient for some users, especially since MD has sometimes downtimes for maintenance and is sometimes overloaded. Why willingly making things harder?