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Showtime websites secretly mined user CPU for cryptocurrency

2 pointsby egbover 7 years ago

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egbover 7 years ago
What if there was a spec that web browsers could submit small amounts of mining work as a micropayment system for web content? (amount determined by content provider per-page or per-session or some other better granularity, only sent if user approves)<p>Browsers could pre-mine&#x2F;cache some amount of work so that page load times would be relatively unaffected.<p>Browsers could ask about payment similar to pages requesting location (yes&#x2F;no&#x2F;always&#x2F;never) so future payments are automatically applied or denied.<p>Thoughts?