https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/02/14/watch-our-ads-or-well-use-your-cpu-for-cryptomining/
How about, "I'll never visit your website"...
How about, "I'll never visit your website"...
Salon: Watch our ads or we’ll use your CPU for cryptomining
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Re: Salon's unconscionable bargain...
I hardly ready them with any regularity these days. With this, I will read them even less. What a douchey strategy...
I hardly ready them with any regularity these days. With this, I will read them even less. What a douchey strategy...
It's legal because you're consenting on the front end for them to "borrow" your CPU. The main problem is that people who consent have no idea that they're committing to having their computer slowed to a crawl. Some CPUs could even overheat and get damaged...
It's in black and white. Personally, if I see something there irresistible, I intend to disable my ad blocker temporarily...
yeah, it just seems like they should have some obligation to let folks know what it is they are consenting to before their computer crashes and/or burns
Or you could, you know, disable ad blocker, like other sites make you do.
There's nothing wrong with offering alternatives.
There's nothing wrong with offering alternatives.
This, however, is going to seriously annoy readers and make their site objectively suck.
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Their language is very cagey. They seem to say they'll just use enough to not interfere with other usage. As someone posted above, field tests seem to show they're using 99%, which will have consequences...
This is why I always get my hair done at the barber shop and avoid the salon.....
I read them on that rare occasion when something thoughtful appears.
I read them on that rare occasion when something thoughtful appears.
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