Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ...
by horsawlarway on Friday March 04, 2022 @12:16PM
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>With ads, buying your way out is impossible
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.
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".