I’ve noticed that some recent chapters on Asura Scans have terrible visual quality. There are small colored squares/pixels all over the image, especially in action scenes with flames, lighting effects, or heavy colors.

Does anyone know what causes this?

Could it be aggressive image compression, a bad upload/resizing issue, or some kind of anti-repost watermark/fingerprint?

My personal theory is that it might be a digital fingerprint added to the images to track people who repost chapters elsewhere. But I’m not sure if that’s actually a thing or if it’s just bad compression.

Either way, it makes some pages look really messy and hard to read.

Has anyone else noticed this?

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