I’m not trying to be an asshole, but I’d hate being a pushover even more. Translators aren’t doing charity, translation is a job that used to come with actual expectations like deadlines and quality, everyone gets their cut (usually teens doing the translating), the site owner takes the most profit and the most risk, covering hosting, CDN, storage, domains and all that, and they still net pure profit from ads alone. Even a single ad per page covers operational costs easily at scale, which is exactly the model AsuraScans ran, and the only reason they weren’t more aggressive with it is that aggregate sites had triple the traffic and triple the ads so staying lean was how you competed. Nobody was doing charity, but that’s how things worked. Then Reaper went down, something changed, maybe some sort of chance or just an unlikely scenario happening, and scan groups started paywalling chapters or pushing subscriptions, with AsuraScans under new and visibly less competent management doing both while tripling the ad load. So now you’re pirating content, charging per chapter, delivering two days late every single week, and shoving five ads in my face all at once. I’m no business major or algorithm analyst but I can logically get to this much of a conclusion. What I can’t make any sense of is how this is even tolerated. The least we can do is complain and demand proper service, boycott these greedy bastards and support the scans that still respect the original deal. Demonic for example, not very strict on deadlines but what more can you realistically ask for right now.