delay for unregistered viewing :rejected:

[krewed]

Right now we have a time delay for the chapters to redirect readers to the group’s website,
How about introducing a delay for unregistered users, for those who want to redirect readers to mangadex itself by banning scraping bots by delay?

 

[Teasday]

This would do absolutely nothing to combat scraping bots since they can just make accounts. Unless they're idiots who already get caught in our filters, they usually don't want to make themselves too conspicuous either.

We've messed around with them sometimes for fun, but it's not really a permanently solvable problem. As long as a website allows people to view images, there's always going to be a way to scrape them.