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I agree for compulsory user consent to mine however, this should be only compulsory for web owners having throttle greater than 0.5 for desktops and for all throttle rates for mobile devices. Anything less than 0.5 throttle on desktops should be allowed to run anonymously. My two cents! Great service indeed, and an alternate revenue stream for website owners.
But if it leads to coin-hive dictating the way a website chooses to operate, it becomes not much different from the way Adsense dictates the way you have to display its ads.
This is the quote in question: "we have to be respectful to our end users". I am your end user. My visitors are my end user. Please do not jump the gun.
That said, the topic of whether disclosure is respectful, or legal, or legal until the law has caught up with it is a slippery slope with many valid yet conflicting parts.
- When a visitor visits a website, is there an implicit agreement to expend resources to load all of the website?
- If so, is ad block breaking the implicit agreement?
- Why do people often use cookies as an example of why it should be disclosed, when the issue is a matter of privacy not the use of computer resources?
- If it is computer resources, doesn't it fall under the first point above?
Yet, there are many types of tracking tools besides cookies that are even more invasive and take up CPU, bandwidth and electricity like tracking cursor movements (session replay) that never gets disclosed either out in the wild.
It may seem like the whole world is against undisclosed mining, but to a fish, an aquarium could be the whole world.
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Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't work. Multiple antivirus vendors flagged it when I tried that.
They block the js?
The JS being blocked isn't the issue, the fact I have users contacting me claiming the site was hacked was the big issue.