Batoto extension isn’t working anymore 😭 while mangadex extension is fine

  • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    77·
    11 months ago

    Someone will surely find a workaround to this. Half my library on tachiyomi is from mangadex lol

    Edit: I did find a workaround, an unofficial repository for mangadex and bato extensions. As of the moment bato extension seems to be broken, but hopefully a patch will be released soon. The developer of the extension still plans to maintain it afaik

    • dvdnet89@lemmy.todayEnglish
      22·
      11 months ago

      30% of my mangas are located on mangadex and the others are located on different sources. That’s good because my migration process to other sources is not really tedious. That’s why diversification of different sources are important nowadays

    • Lee Duna@lemmy.nzOPEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      About one-third my library from batoto 😭

      but hopefully a patch will be released soon.

      I really hope for this

  • CJOtheReal@ani.socialEnglish
    413·
    11 months ago

    What a shitshow to wake up to… Fuck Kakao Entertainment, may they kill themselves.

    Replacements: Mangadeamon, Mangasushi, flamescans, Mangabuddy, Mangakakalot… Diversify your library while the dex extension still works. Some scans on those btw get updates before Dex does.

    Edit: this company was registered in 2021… They definitely don’t have a case as mangadex has been there longer than this and same with the extension. Fuck those greedy bastards, if you know someone using anything from them, give that person a educational slap.

      • CJOtheReal@ani.socialEnglish
        181·
        11 months ago

        Greed, thats all. They know that a non profit can’t defend themselves against this bs. Hope someone shoots whoever made that decision. People have been shot for less…

    • thoughts3rased@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      I wouldn’t endorse Mangakakalot, they had some involvement in the Mangadex DDOS/breach a couple years back. Not to mention unlike MD they’re a scan aggregator, which basically means they take scans from other sites (like Mangadex) and slap ads on top of them.

      • CJOtheReal@ani.socialEnglish
        31·
        11 months ago

        The extensions of tachiyomi are ad free so i don’t really care about that, but yeah there are a lot more to chose from if you want to avoid them (wich is totally fair, i don’t know about the bad stuff they do or did, i just want to read Mangas on my E-reader)

  • Neshura@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
    331·
    11 months ago

    If the Tachiyomi devs don’t reverse this somehow (which seems unlikely given what I’ve read about past cases of this, custom repo it is I guess) they probably just killed the app. Ubless you are aware of how to get Mangadex and bato back Tachiyomi is now a worse option than even just using your browser again for most people.

    Seems like the devs even folded like wet noodles wgen they had (to my knowledge) risk free options of at least attempting to prevent this, such as demanding the dmca to be filed with GitHub (saved youtube-dl for example since their repo got reinstated after Google withdrew their claim)

    This sort of non-reaction is just asking for the wolves to tear the project apart, after this any copyright holder with no leg to stand on will file claims agaonst Tachiyomi for whatever sources remain. Because why shouldn’t they? It’s a 100% success rate and they don’t even risk anything (illegally) abusing DMCA with people like this at the helm of the project.

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
      141·
      11 months ago

      Most of not all my mangas are not from mangadex, they are from either scanlators groups or scrappers (who earn no money from me since I don’t see their ads so it’s morally the best option for me).

    • UberMentch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      FMD2 (for auto-downloading manga), Komga (for hosting manga on a local server), and Tachiyomi for a self-hosted solution, if you’re interested.

    • Lee Duna@lemmy.nzOPEnglish
      24·
      11 months ago

      Thanks, still no luck.

      I guess batoto has made changes

      EDIT :

      I also found this on another unoffical repo

      • Neshura@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        wow what a shitshow. I’m really not well versed in who the tachiyomi devs are but just blindly following copyright notices, then only explaining firther upon prodding (with the result being a seemingly flimsy takedown request) on top of restrict8ng 3rd party addons leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Any of those individually already would bit this leaves a “trying to suck up to corpos” bad tase for me.

        Edit: not sure exactly how the extensions get disabled but the two from the mentioned repo still work for me after a force stop of tachiyomi so just being an unofficial extension might not be enough to deactivate it

        • Lee Duna@lemmy.nzOPEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          I’m using tachiyomi fork, and I found the batoto extension (revived). It works again after migrating a lot of series to the new extension.

    • JoshuaEN@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      11 months ago

      We retain a policy of goodwill for legitimate takedown requests, whether it be from copyright holders or scanlators acting in good faith.

      Yes, what a legitimate good faith takedown request for code in a repository that this company didn’t own the copyright to.

      The copyright system is an absolute joke.

  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    24·
    11 months ago

    Heads up, as of last night you can’t search MangaDex via the old extension. Manga you already have favorited are still updated, but you can’t find new ones to favorite

  • ReluctantZen@feddit.nlEnglish
    9·
    11 months ago

    Hmm might switch to the Neko fork then, since I don’t think that relies on extensions. Not sure what to do about Bato though

    • JK_Flip_Flop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I can confirm that Neko still works flawlessly for me. I only use Mangadex so have never really been interested in the wider Tachiyomi space.

    • Lee Duna@lemmy.nzOPEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Yeah it works fine with batoto extension revived from anorher unofficial repo