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from the got-to-pay-for-those-adverts-somehow dept.
The news outlet Salon is allowing Adblock-using visitors to opt-in to using the JavaScript-based Coinhive tool to mine the cryptocurrency Monero:
Other sites have used cryptocurrency mining in lieu of (or in addition to) advertising. Sometimes, it's done surreptitiously without users' consent — The Pirate Bay admitted to secretly adding Coinhive integration last year, and hackers have planted mining malware on other sites. In this case, it's an opt-in program; a spokesperson tells FT that testing started on Monday.
Salon has an FAQ explaining this move.
Also at Ars Technica.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Wednesday February 14 2018, @04:37PM (1 child)
Throwing a custom CSS stylesheet into the mix is less likely to break things than custom JavaScript or turning off the site's JS. Especially in cases where so much content or functionality is buried in heavy JS.
Firefox and other browsers have made it pretty annoying to customize CSS. Usually you will want to download an extension instead. Which is what you would do with JS to get what you want (uMatrix + Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey).
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 15 2018, @03:09AM
Where I come from we call that "defective."