This is a cool twist on the hashcash idea, where Salon gets paid when you do a proof-of-work.
What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon?
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Re: What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon?
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I've disabled JS and only enable it in incognito when needed/when mandatory for a particular site. Tedious I know, but a habit I picked up when everyone started autoplaying videos.
Don't need javascript to autoplay videos.
On most sites you do. I do this everyday. I should know what I'm talking about.
Re: What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon?
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
When sites are specifically proxying their miners, to act as if they're running in a first-party context, that is deceptive, and done specifically to get around adblockers and mining blockers. Make it 100% opt-in and tell people in no uncertain terms up front what they're signing up for, then maybe .
> Make it 100% opt-in It seems to be 100% opt-in in the terms of either you select ads or mining, I am certain you probably mean you want to opt out of ads and mining.
That is not opt-in, that is a forced choice between two evils.
I do not wish to be forced into an opt-out situation. It is opt-in or nothing.
I will continue to block ads, miners and other malicious scripting. They can offer whichever ad or miner they want, and I will simply refuse and block all of them from appearing on my device in my browser to consume my battery power and my bandwidth.
They are more than welcome to put up a paywall, either single payments or a subscription service, and I will pay for their content if it is appealing to me. They are also welcome to (attempt to) block me for using JS/ad blocking. It will either be completely ineffectual and easily circumvented, or it will make me go to other sites, that don't treat their customers as cash cows.
I have absolutely no obligation to unknowingly fund other people's internet profiteering moonshots. If they want money, they can ask for it honestly and directly. I support several content creators on Patreon, and I regularly donate to various open source projects and the like.
I don't mind paying for stuff, but I do mind when it doesn't happen openly and transparently.
Re: What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon?
#154Would be interesting to pull their destination bitcoin address and see stats of how many nano-bitcoins they've mined so far.
They're not mining Bitcoin, they're mining Monero, and a key property of Monero that makes it a currency is that you can't tell how much someone has.
Re: What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon?
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It’s just proof that you didn’t forge a scarce commodity. The value isn’t related to the wasted electricity, but the hard problem the electricity was used to solve. Love it or hate it, it makes sense.
But does that hard problem actually do anything? If it was something like Folding@Home, I could see the value. It seems to me, the only “value” in this hard problem is to waste electricity.
You’re right; I phrased that poorly. What I intended was “the value derives from a proof that an amount of work was done, independent of the hard problem that necessitated the work or the resources expended to solve the problem.”
The value in proving some amount of work was done is that it’s a mechanism for defeating fraud.