Salon using visitors computers to mine currency

If you browse for an hour a day and they use 50% cpu power i suppose it costs you.. A penny? Based on typical cpu power draw. If they can harness gpu power draw then its a lot more of course.
I suppose its okay if they ask but on sly its a no
 
With more and more people using ad blockers, it was only a matter of time before someone found a new way to monetise their internet traffic.

I wouldn't be surprised if several popular websites are already doing something similar without informing their visitors
 
trigg_27 said:
With more and more people using ad blockers, it was only a matter of time before someone found a new way to monetise their internet traffic.

I wouldn't be surprised if several popular websites are already doing something similar without informing their visitors
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thing is, it's the wrong solution to the problem. the reason people take up adblock is because they're sick to death of the constant in your face advertising.

if advertising was a bit more subtle and less intrusive people wouldn't bother blocking it.
 
adolf hamster said:
thing is, it's the wrong solution to the problem. the reason people take up adblock is because they're sick to death of the constant in your face advertising.

if advertising was a bit more subtle and less intrusive people wouldn't bother blocking it.
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Precisely, also - bandwidth is not free - when we visit a site on our mobiles etc we don't expect them to steal our Gb's with their **** ads, yet that's exactly what they do, right?
 
It's a huge issue for mobile browsers, my ad blockers reporting over 100,000 blocked ads currently, that's over several months, but I'm on a 4gb data plan, and typically use 3.5gb without the advert overhead.
 
Zefan said:
While I do not work in the industry, so can't possibly comment on intent, I think subtle advertising is far more effective.
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I'm pretty certain there are now people in the industry that believe advertising is pretty much pointless, at least for the big brands/well known products. It's a cyclic problem though, if Coca Cola advertise, then so must Pepsi, if neither of them do, they'd still be selling their products by the bucket, whilst not having to spend millions on adverts.

I'm also pretty certain that advertising simply doesn't work on a lot of people, I'm most definitely never swayed by an advert and will always choose a purchase based on independent research and (where applicable) testing.
 
It's surprising that you can even do this just through a browser. The browser companies should put a proper block on it. It seems insecure.
 
String said:
Advertising isn't meant to be subtle, that would defeat the purpose.
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it doesn't need to be completely hidden, as you're right it does defeat the purpose, but you must agree that on many sites the level is way ott.

take youtube, for the most part its 5s skippable ads and the occasional 30s unskippable ad, and yet they make enough to be able to run that whole site and be able to cut monetisation to channels purely because they disagree with them.
 
Most none genuine streaming sites now try hiding miners whilst your browsing their site instead of blowing your PC up with popups.
 
Zefan said:
While I do not work in the industry, so can't possibly comment on intent, I think subtle advertising is far more effective.
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I agree. Daring Fireball (an blog that's mostly Apple related with occasional posts on design in general) has just one small, unobtrusive advert on the page and the owner doesn't allow ads that use scripts to track you across the internet. Occasionally there'll be a sponsored post. For sites like that I will white-list them 100% of the time because I understand that content isn't free and people have to get paid.

On the other hand, for sites like my local 'news' website (the Yorkshire Evening Post) I have everything I can blocked because otherwise it's a total hellscape of pop up adverts, ads that take up a whole screen and autoplaying video. Plus god only knows what scripts running in the background.

Make your ads unobtrusive and I have no problem viewing them. Anything that interrupts what I'm doing to close an advert...blocked!
 
100% cpu usage is ridiculous, well the whole thing is ridiculous but they could at least throttle it back to like 20%.

The ad industry needs to adapt, as FishFluff says the local news sites are a prime example. I can't even browse our local one on my older laptop as all the ads just push the cpu / memory usage through the roof. That said some ads are pushing the boundaries between subtle and just outright deceptive, blog posts written as if its a genuine person when really its just one big ad is one example.
 
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