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Re:Who and what is Coinhive? by banachtarski on Monday March 26, 2018 @02:18PM (#16681135)
You'd prefer lower battery life and worsened browser performance?
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Re:Who and what is Coinhive? by Psilidae on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:15PM (#16683139)
That's also a description of ads.
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Re:Who and what is Coinhive? by banachtarski on Monday March 26, 2018 @11:11PM (#16684887)
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.
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Re:Who and what is Coinhive? by pietroglyph on Monday March 26, 2018 @07:06PM (#16683528)
Ads are also visually intrusive and incentivize tracking.
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