Salon using visitors computers to mine currency

V F · 15 Feb 2018 at 13:04

FishFluff said:
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!

Greed cannot help nor stop itself.

bartledvd · 15 Feb 2018 at 15:31

I dont even know what salon is but if i wanted to use my pc for mining then i would be doing it not some website i visit

Steampunk · 15 Feb 2018 at 15:38

Last year Kaspersky started classing browser miners as malware and blocking them by default. Several ad-blockers also have lists to block them too.

Hotwired · 15 Feb 2018 at 15:39

paradigm said:
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.

Not always about a direct effect of see ad -> buy product.

Sometimes advertising space is bought to keep up brand awareness so whether you like it or not that product is kept alive in your memory. You can't forget certain soft drink names if you wanted to.

GhostWKD · 15 Feb 2018 at 16:04

Apparently some sites are doing this on the sly already, not done much digging but apparently there's a car forum I used to go on where the owner has started using this. Has driven all traffic away from the site apparently.

V F · 15 Feb 2018 at 16:05

GhostWKD said:
Apparently some sites are doing this on the sly already, not done much digging but apparently there's a car forum I used to go on where the owner has started using this. Has driven all traffic away from the site apparently.

Never saw that coming. :rolleyes:

krooton · 16 Feb 2018 at 10:02

Maybe Wiki should offer this (maybe 10/20% cpu utilisation) as an option instead of donating?

So you can leech, pay, or give some mining power to help pay.

MooMoo444 · 16 Feb 2018 at 10:20

krooton said:
Maybe Wiki should offer this (maybe 10/20% cpu utilisation) as an option instead of donating?

So you can leech, pay, or give some mining power to help pay.

Everyone uses wiki, and those that say they don't, do. Definitely wouldn't mind supporting them