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: 2) by frojack on Wednesday February 14 2018, @06:50PM (1 child)
Well Folding At Home has the capacitors on my Mobo all bulgeing because my GPU is pulling so much power through the PCI bus.
I'm now shopping for a replacement mobo - or a new machine.
With 6 or 10 browser tabs trying to monopolize my CPU cores I can see serious hardware penalties, not to mention increasing sluggish machine.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by chromas on Thursday February 15 2018, @01:45AM
You should probably plug in the 6-pin power connector.