Mangadex and Batoto extensions have been removed due complaints from copyright holders

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

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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
- 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
- About one-third my library from batoto 😭
  but hopefully a patch will be released soon.
  I really hope for this

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.
- this company was registered in 2021... They definitely don't have a case as mangadex
  Tapas bought by Kakao, and some titles uploaded on batoto.
  S.Korea's Kakao to buy two U.S. storytelling apps for $950 mln
  This is from one of the webtoon series on batoto
  
  I'm not sure why they sent the removal request to tachiyomi devs
  
  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...
- 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.
  
  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)

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

Even though they are closed and conversation has been locked links to GitHub issues for those interested : Issue #19553 and Issue #19554
- 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.
- Wow, I was wondering why those were 404ing, saw the repo was deleted and a new one was just created, and saw this post from 15mins ago:
  https://old.reddit.com/r/Tachiyomi/comments/192157x/2024_there_is_the_end/
  TLDR: they purging all extensions.
  
  And i guess their sub. Went there to try and find any info and the top mod just nuked it all. Even the release support post

You can use this https://github.com/keiyoushi/tachiyomi-extensions
- Thanks, still no luck.
  I guess batoto has made changes
  
  EDIT :
  I also found this on another unoffical repo
  
  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
  
  Sounds like the app will have to be forked?
- Thanks! MangaDex now works with this
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keiyoushi/extensions/repo/index.min.json
  is the URL I used to add in TachiyomiSY extension repo.

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
- Still working as of yet but havent updated (thanks to the post).

https://github.com/KotatsuApp/Kotatsu here's actively maintained fork

They purged the entire extension list, the limpdick cowards. Time to jump ship, so long and thanks for all the fish!

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
- 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.