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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by kbart on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @08:16AM (#15337926)
"Mining in a browser is going to consume my battery and bandwidth"

You mean just like ads do? Of course, in a perfect world we wouldn't have either, but I just don't see clear distinction between mining in browser or ads or other useless/annoying things (from the user perspective).

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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @08:33AM (#15338038)
In ads, waste of electricity is a bug. The more lean you can make them, the better (even if only because you can then put more of them). In cryptocurrencies, waste is a feature. The more power you burn, the more money you get.

One of those disincentivizes waste (howewer weakly). The other incentivizes it.

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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by detaro on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @08:17AM (#15337930)
People are unhappy about the kind of ads that do that excessively too.
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