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Re:The Price of Free Is Actually Too High by retrogradeorbit on Sunday April 15, 2018 @08:55PM (#16845956)
There is a way, actually. Browser crypto mining. People just seem to (IMHO irrationally) hate it even more than surveillance and data gathering.
Re:The Price of Free Is Actually Too High by Avshalom on Sunday April 15, 2018 @09:08PM (#16846012)
I'm not personally opposed to it actually but A) does it actually work? B) until people can pay rent in arbitrary coins it very much relies on mining the "right" coin to be able to get any useful USD, SEK, ZAR... Whatever out of it. C) because A is reliant on the cost of mining and established crypto-asset-ma-bobs are expensive to mine trying to get value off the small amount of cpu you can grab via JavaScript mining it incentives ScamCoins.
Re:The Price of Free Is Actually Too High by eli on Sunday April 15, 2018 @09:30PM (#16846091)
I think the hate is rational, but more importantly the math really doesn't work. It pays far less than advertising on all but the very least desirable sites.