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Re:Show HN: No Coin – A browser extension to block coin miners by gkya on Sunday September 17, 2017 @08:17PM (#15272472)
Ad money comes from a third party, not me. Whereas with this coinhive thing, I'm paying with my computational power and my battery (which is the most important thing here). Traditional internet ads increase resource consumption too, which is part of why we block them. Ads that are part of a video are different, you can skip them, and they cant breach your privacy (I dont know what Twitch are doing, though).
Re:Show HN: No Coin – A browser extension to block coin miners by sillysaurus3 on Sunday September 17, 2017 @08:21PM (#15272487)
(You can't skip them, sadly. The video won't buffer until the ad has fully buffered, which happens in real time.)
Re:Show HN: No Coin – A browser extension to block coin miners by sleepychu on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:30AM (#15274454)
Baked in v.s. player.