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by tokenizerrr 3200 days ago
Yes. Websites stealing cpu time to mine crypto currency is ridiculous. I'd go as far as calling it malware. It's a waste of my power and will wear out my hardware faster than necessary. It's also bad for the environment due to useless power drain.

If we're talking about a server for a card game you can just get a cheapo dedicated server and you'll be fine. Get a user or two to donate once a month and you will even run a profit. Or skip that Starbucks once a month.
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thinkloop 3200 days ago
> Websites stealing cpu time to mine crypto currency is ridiculous

It is being offered as an option, not being stolen.

> Get a user or two to donate once a month and you will even run a profit. Or skip that Starbucks once a month.

I want to make millions of dollars so that I can build schools for children, why are you limiting the value of my effort and creation?

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tokenizerrr 3200 days ago
Because there is a 99% chance that you are going to fail. Sorry but your card game isn't going to save the world, let's not wreck it while trying.
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thinkloop 3200 days ago
You don't even know what my card game is.

It's a decentralized uncensorable poker game with no rake that makes money from light client-side mining of relatively cpu efficient coins - you don't think I can build a single school from that?

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mhluongo 3200 days ago
And you can use another card game. Get over it, as long as it's disclosed everyone involved are consenting.
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tokenizerrr 3200 days ago
Sure thing. I can also block whatever crap I don't want running in my browser so I'll be doing that. Just giving feedback.
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3131s 3199 days ago
The real environmental cost of ads is when people actually buy the useless shit being advertised. Also, you definitely have a strange attitude toward mining cryptocoins client-side and are engaging in many assumptions and false notions (that 100% of CPU will be used, that ad-tracking doesn't use just as many cycles, that it's not opt-in, etc.)
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tokenizerrr 3199 days ago
It's actually quite simple, any website that makes my laptop fans spin up gets closed out. None of the websites with ads trigger this behavior. The cryptominers do. If you look at actual CPU usage you will notice the obvious difference.

This makes sense, since the entire idea of crypto currency mining is to use CPU cycles to mine the crypto currency. While ads is just some basic tracking and graphics.

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