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RE: Webmasters can now earn crypto easily from each of their websites
seriously? The JS runs on client side, the coins you earn without your visitors consent belong to them. For me this seems somewhere between scam and fraud, actually...
Would you say that google adsense is a scam and money earned from ad revenue belongs to the visitor or the site owner?
while I personally dislike this as well, tracking the users behavior is not taking its CPU time to mine crypto. Ad industry pays you for information about the visitors, not for calculations done by them.
...Another reason to have NoScript enabled...
I am currently looking into how much cpu a page visit uses (trying to carry out a comparison against the same site with the JS and without), so far the difference is neglegable however with adsense and analytics enabled the CPU usage is much higher in comparison. Obviously this is still testing in its early stages but im not seeing an issue so far.
you might have guessed from my previous comments that I have concerns, ethical and legally. Apart from that: My browser console says it does ~300H/s on jsecoin.com, They write they use sha256. So if you really managed to earn some coins with browser based mining on your sites, you should rather ask how to hook up ASIC miners on this because this would be a gold mine then...
indeed, i see what you mean about the ethical and legal standpoint, the popup on entry to the sites containing the script does indeed have a privacy policy link which links to a full disclosure of the system in place.
My browser is currently at 1250 hp/s and i have managed to mine 8 coins from the JSE website itself, obviously this is due to it being so new and the difficulty being extremely low. I actually just got rid of a dedicated sha256 miner too :S wish i had kept it as i certainly would love to experiment with it in this system and see what could be done