Non-Intrusive Ads… for a Short While

[Jergens]

My personal belief is that ads will be sticking around forever and a day.
I hate to remind everyone but MangaDex is owned and operated by Namicomi and NamiComi answers to investors.This is especially crucial to note after last year's publisher stomp-a-thon styling on MangaDex's ass twice which resulted in Namicomi being derisked by at least Pace Capital (NamiComi's largest investor) in their Q3.25, Q4.25 AND Q1.26 guidance. (I did not check Q2.26 guidance for obvious reasons)

This means they need to expand upon current revenue streams like ads and membership to placate investors... well what do you know, recently they have been seriously shopping around for adspace buyers, officially partnered with the credit card companies, and are rapidly expanding member-only privileges. Too bad they keep hiring clowns and acting like the users are as dumb as their new employees.

Well with the way things are going things inevitably go tits up and we will be unfortunately vindicated while we search for a new site. If I can get used to not reading anything during the downtime post databreach I can get used to it again. I hope to be wrong, but time will tell.
Hopefully it'll turn out to be a nothing burger, we will look incredibly silly, and everything will be right in the world for a manga comic piracy site.

 

[HaikenEdge]

Well with the way things are going things inevitably go tits up and we will be unfortunately vindicated while we search for a new site. If I can get used to not reading anything during the downtime post databreach I can get used to it again. I hope to be wrong, but time will tell.
Hopefully it'll turn out to be a nothing burger, we will look incredibly silly, and everything will be right in the world for a manga comic piracy site.

It'll just go back to pre-MangaDex, whenever every group had their own website and you had to have like 500 bookmarks to read everything you want to read on the original site, or an aggregator.

 

[JVick]

It'll just go back to pre-MangaDex, whenever every group had their own website and you had to have like 500 bookmarks to read everything you want to read on the original site, or an aggregator.

That will teach youngsters how to build excel spreadsheets and lessen the impact of shutdown. That's nice