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Re:“An on-page advert was mining bitcoin in my browser” by rtkwe on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @11:04AM (#15124763)
Depends on how much each ad cost them. The main reason that ASICs are the only profitable way to mine is because of electricity costs and by running this ad they're shunting that cost onto the user of the site. In place of that is the cost to serve an ad which can be really cheap. I could see the math working out buying a lot of really long tail terms super cheap.
Re:“An on-page advert was mining bitcoin in my browser” by the_stc on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @11:16AM (#15124838)
CPU mining is not profitable even for free. Assume they get 5 minutes of computation per ad at 100H/s. They need billions of ads a day just to get 1GH/s, which is around 48 cents a year.