They apparently to came to an agreement with the players where, to support the server, a browser miner would be ran on the dynamic map website.
With crypto mining I can buy my way out of it by having powerful hardware, or - in a hypothetical future where this practice is mainstream - offloading the mining to a separate machine as to not affect my mobile device's CPU. Crypto miners have a defined price: give me an average CPU's hashrate while you stay on the page and that's it - so if you pay that you are good.
With ads, buying your way out is impossible - by attempting to do so you just become an even bigger target. There is no define price for it that you can pay to "opt out".
I disagree. It's just not in its final form yet. But take a peek:
Hulu: 6.99 with ads, 12.99 without
Youtube: Free with ads, 11.99 without (or bundled with another google paid service, like Fi)
HBO: 9.99 with ads, 14.99 without
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It's coming - if you have money to throw at the problem, you can already buy your way out of a lot of advertising.
If you have time and a bit of technical savvy - setting up a pihole or ublock origin incurs costs on time, but also remove ads.
At least with ads the cost is fairly clear, and it's definite. With mining... it's mostly malicious and will consume as much CPU as it can. That actually taxes me more for having a nice CPU.
https://cyware.com/news/pirate-bay-found-running-browser-bas...
I imagine a future, where people just do not vist sites, where they do not agree to the conditions.
But like others pointed out, those sites exist already since quite a while.
I think all advertising is inherently bad but this is the least bad form of advertising I've ever seen. Not only are users compensated, they can actually turn off the ads in the settings and simply use the browser normally, and it has a built-in adblocker even on mobile.
https://github.com/jtgrassie/xmr-wasm
Individually hash rate will be quite poor but if you make a mining pool out of all your users everything changes. Monero mining pools even have rules prohibiting that.
https://minexmr.com/miningguide
> Botnet / Web Mining Policy
> Sadly it happens that Botnets often run cryptominers on infected PCs.
> minexmr does not support botnets, web miners or any other illegal activities.
> Any account suspected of botnet mining or web mining will be banned.
Imagine a future where websites force people to consent to allowing them use your device to mine cryptocurrency while you use its services or browse its content instead of ads.