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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by flukus on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @02:54AM (#15336713)
Unless you just package it and let youtube do the actual streaming. Imagine creating "cat-videos.com" and embedding all the youtube videos into the site but providing a better UI for browsing them.
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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by chii on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @05:38AM (#15337316)
But you'd get both ads and mining. The point of mining was to get rid of ads!
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