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A comment on Ask HN: Why did Coinhive, the in-browser crypto miner, fail?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Why did Coinhive, the in-browser crypto miner, fail? by JshWright on Saturday March 09, 2019 @04:02PM (#19348455)
We were all paying for it...
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Re:Ask HN: Why did Coinhive, the in-browser crypto miner, fail? by nukemandan on Saturday March 09, 2019 @04:09PM (#19348490)
But the cost to remove ads here is very worth spending that electricity over my attention.
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Re:Ask HN: Why did Coinhive, the in-browser crypto miner, fail? by criddell on Saturday March 09, 2019 @04:24PM (#19348577)
What about the environmental and other external costs?

I run an ad blocker most of the time because crappy ads and ad-tech uses a lot of bandwidth and battery. Crypto-mining is even worse for power consumption.

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