Thoughts on illegally uploaded manga

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I'd like to see the different views that people have on this. I've thought of the following categories. And if you have more categories please write that first in your comment I'd love to see it! Definitely not required to address all these topics, just an opinion is fine

Online manga uploaded to sites from:
1. existing (printed & published) Manga/Manhwas
a) completed or hiatus or discontinued
b) updated & ongoing

2. purely online works (webtoons/visual adaptations of web novels)
a) made free for creation
b) paid for for creation
c) also considering discontinued, hiatus, updated consistently, etc for both cases of free or not

And I'd love to see the viewpoint from the following:
- readers
- uploaders/translation/scanlantion contributors
- authors if any! Or those who really got close to putting out work and had to go through the author process

Topics of thought:
- upload time after an update?
- censorship. That's it. Periodt
- blog sites that summarize the plot of a chapter as a neutral zone

Thoughts can be polarizing and will definitely clash. Please be respectful! I don't want any cancel culture in the comments T-T just good open discussion

Since I'm quite interested in this question I may come back to this question from time to time [repost]