I thought they were just paying someone to half assedly maintain MAL for the last few years, but it turns out they were paying someone to build a back end and create a browsable database so they can sell user’s information for their own profit.
Oh… Time to look for an alternative I guess… I don’t have it linked to anything except some manga on Tachiyomi, but that’s still not okay. Very disappointing. I also *really *like how they’re using an external site to announce this and don’t mention this on their actual site. Very nice
I thought they already did it, with all their privacy policy entailed.
On that note, is there any similar service that doesn’t do that? Never found one. Kitsu.io is open source but chockfull of trackers, ani.db fits the criteria but doesn’t have the same connections available as MAL (like with MALsync and such), and MangaUpdates’s anime tracker got taken down years ago.
Seems like the only option is hosting Kitsu yourself.
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