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Re:UBlock Origin by gpvos on Monday June 15, 2015 @11:45AM (#9720079)
Micropayments should be a solution, but it's hard to get the cooperation needed for that going.
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Re:UBlock Origin by rhaps0dy on Monday June 15, 2015 @12:18PM (#9720321)
What about leasing visitors' processing power to run scientific computation? Maybe MapReduce jobs?

Would that be more intrusive or less intrusive than advertisement?

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Re:UBlock Origin by gpvos on Monday June 15, 2015 @02:10PM (#9720973)
If I could choose in advance which kind of computations would be done, maybe. And there definitely should be an enforceable limit on the amount of processing.
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Re:UBlock Origin by rhaps0dy on Monday June 15, 2015 @04:55PM (#9722031)
It should not alter the user experience. Maybe use at most 30% CPU, leaving priority to the other processes. Also avoid computing on devices with battery, or with low battery.
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Re:UBlock Origin by piyush_soni on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @10:20AM (#9725965)
Personally, if this processing infrastructure is managed by a big/trustworthy company (MS/Google/Amazon etc.) I should be OK with it, as long as its sandboxed. But if every individual website wants to implement its own way of using my processor power, I will prefer ads to it any day.
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Re:UBlock Origin by quadrangle on Monday June 15, 2015 @11:28PM (#9723645)
An attempt being developed for that, not ready yet: https://snowdrift.coop/
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