[coship]

I agree for compulsory user consent to mine however, this should be only compulsory for web owners having throttle greater than 0.5 for desktops and for all throttle rates for mobile devices. Anything less than 0.5 throttle on desktops should be allowed to run anonymously. My two cents!

Great service indeed, and an alternate revenue stream for website owners.

[rastilin]

Agreed. The whole point of mining is that it's a less obtrusive and less intrusive alternative to running ads. If you're going to show people a scary "opt-in" button from a separate page (which may be blocked anyway), it's easier to just ditch the idea and run ads instead.

What if they say no? Do you just block them from reading your site? Users will disappear as no one wants yet another account they have to click through just to check a site out.

[user1667]

Agreed. Most people doesn't even know what mining is and won't opt-in even if the cpu usage was only 5 or 10%. Ads doesn't ask the visitors to opt-in, why should it be any different with miners?

[kingvid]

agreed! people opt-in Very small probability.