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I think their issue with Mangago compared to Mangadex is they don't like their work being used to make the website money. If Mangadex struggles to pay for servers sure they might go the way of AO3 and mooch off users but at least that'll require open transparency and donations from people who have money to spare. Plus Mangadex just has better quality than what ends up here because of bots.
I have never seen a single add here, and if they want people on their site then they better find a better web designer causes it sucks.
Do mangadex really have a moral high ground here? I get that not having ads make them look like saints for not making profits but how does it support scanlations to use an ad free website to read "their" work? I know damn well it doesn't support the author.
What do they do when they need to renew server and domain costs? Try to mooch via PayPal?