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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by dawnerd on Monday September 25, 2017 @11:20PM (#15335880)
Whose to say it's spare cycles? How does the site know I'm not watching something in a tiny window while doing work?
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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by jiggunjer on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @12:42AM (#15336234)
Or watching full-screen while a script does the work.
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