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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by TeMPOraL on Friday November 03, 2017 @04:44AM (#15617596)
The inefficiency makes it too unprofitable to even bother with it for small actors. What am I going to do with the fraction of a fraction of a cent my homepage mines over one year?
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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by zdkl on Friday November 03, 2017 @05:16AM (#15617730)
I may be in a minority, but I believe the incentives of this method are "better" for the spirit of the open web, and I for one am prepared for the low revenue if it means this ideology may perdure.

The motivation is not to use *coins for their own sake, but that the alternative is getting scarier everyday.

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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by TeMPOraL on Friday November 03, 2017 @05:29AM (#15617785)
Yeah, the incentives are better, to be sure. Personally, I just don't like the implementation. I see current cryptocurrencies as a huge and completely unnecessary waste of energy. I don't like waste, but the concept of paying with computational resources isn't bad per se, IMO, and definitely better than paying with my attention (and then again with the data the site collected on me).

[0] - in the days of energy crisis, when we can't even switch to safer sources fast enough not to risk cooking ourselves on this planet.

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