<story><title>Salon magazine mines crypto-cash with readers&apos; PCs</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43053783</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MereInterest</author><text>Absolutely not.  Wasting battery power to let somebody else buy into a pyramid scheme is not my idea of a solution.</text></item><item><author>TekMol</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t that a good thing?&lt;p&gt;Imagine you have a little widget in your browser that displays something like &amp;#x27;50%&amp;#x27; which means you constantly use 50% of one core to mine a cryptocurrency for the page you are currently looking at.&lt;p&gt;And in return you get an ad free web. I think that would be way better then the web as we know it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sudhirj</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a perfectly reasonable solution for those who are okay with it. You need to pay with something - either with your privacy, your attention, your money, or your electricity&amp;#x2F;idle CPU cycles.&lt;p&gt;Ad blockers eliminate paying with attention, and put a big squeeze on paying with privacy. Which makes the leftover choices of money or power quite reasonable.&lt;p&gt;What site uses the money or power for is nobody&amp;#x27;s business. Would you not pay journalists if you found out they like losing money on pyramid schemes?</text></comment>
<story><title>Salon magazine mines crypto-cash with readers&apos; PCs</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43053783</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MereInterest</author><text>Absolutely not.  Wasting battery power to let somebody else buy into a pyramid scheme is not my idea of a solution.</text></item><item><author>TekMol</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t that a good thing?&lt;p&gt;Imagine you have a little widget in your browser that displays something like &amp;#x27;50%&amp;#x27; which means you constantly use 50% of one core to mine a cryptocurrency for the page you are currently looking at.&lt;p&gt;And in return you get an ad free web. I think that would be way better then the web as we know it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staticassertion</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re reading an article that they provide... you&amp;#x27;re paying for a service. Ads promote tracking, third parties, uncontrolled CPU usage.&lt;p&gt;A coin being mined is controlled, handled entirely by first party, provides no incentive for tracking, etc.&lt;p&gt;This seems like a huge win.</text></comment>