What about a clever webgl shader to leverage the GPU?

Or a browser that offers a first-class mining API. Then we'll see every device come with a specialized mining chip. As long as you meet the required number of hashes you get the add-free experience.

Sounds like an abomination.

It might force devs to optimize code more, since there will never be any more spare cycles muhahaha

Not if it's free and distributed worldwide. 99% of people don't even know what these coins are, regardless of what happens in the background when a computer requests content on a server.

I see it alongside ads.

No matter how many browsers are working on it?

"We lose money on every sale, but we make it up in volume!"

If were talking about new monitisation schemes, can we not entertain the thought of using newer technologies better suited to streaming at scale? I'm thinking of IPFS in particular, but there are probably other solutions as well.

Such as WebRTC.