Re:Who and what is Coinhive?
by pietroglyph on Monday March 26, 2018 @02:12PM
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It's unfortunate that Coinhive has given this type of monetization a bad reputation; at least their shady practices make it that much easier for a competitor to enter this space. I hope that someone can come along with a transparent mining script that has an expidient abuse resolution process, and no tracking. Hopefully that's enough to overcome the stigma now associated with this type of monetization. I would certainly prefer that to regular ads.
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Re:Who and what is Coinhive?
by banachtarski on Monday March 26, 2018 @02:18PM
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You'd prefer lower battery life and worsened browser performance?
That's also a description of ads.
Re:Who and what is Coinhive?
by banachtarski on Monday March 26, 2018 @11:11PM
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I think solving hashes ad nauseum while the page is loaded (and beyond due to service workers) is well beyond a typical ad in terms of resource consumption.
Re:Who and what is Coinhive?
by pietroglyph on Monday March 26, 2018 @07:06PM
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Ads are also visually intrusive and incentivize tracking.
Shamelessly plugging sparechange.io we take abuse seriously. Just create a ticket on our site, we require proof of site ownership (place file / DNS txt record) and abusive API key is banned (all websocket traffic becomes HTTP Unauthorized so no mining).