[damnstraight]

It only really makes sense with browser-level cpu scheduling. Otherwise there's no real way to throttle the amount of cpu these bitcoin miners take from you.

Without that, I think people are unlikely to be sympathetic and they'll be snagged by ad blockers rapidly: consent is the cornerstone of products people like.

[CoryHallpdp11]

adblock-nocoin-list

https://github.com/hoshsadiq/adblock-nocoin-list/

[reecree]

This is great! Thanks!

[Kiro]

Why would they block miner.pr0gramm.com, which is only used in one specific place (the pr0gramm site itself) where you need to explicitly press a start button to mine?

[zdkl]

"More than $BIGNUM entries? These guys know what they're doing!"

[Kiro]

My point is that it's clear that you mine when you use their miner. You get premium points on the website as a reward. How is that shady? I think it's a perfect use case of where a web miner makes sense as an alternative monetization method.

[darawk]

It's possible to throttle. Perform n hashes, wait 100ms, repeat.

[seandougall]

Certainly it's possible for the script author to throttle. Not so much for the web site visitor.

[jopsen]

I hope it's just a matter of time before browsers start to throttle sites...

Or maybe search rankings will be affected by CPU usage, and bandwidth.

[flukus]

Chrome has added throttling for inactive tabs. The problem is this is an active tab open for long stretches of time doing a somewhat cpu intensive task, so throttling isn't an option. I also doubt that be too adversely affected by slipping down the search rankings in this case.

[hubcaps]

Bandwidth and loads time already do play a part in search rankings, at least with Google.

[swsieber]

Which is a lot easier toeasure than long running CPU usage unfortunately (at least not without privacy concerns - e.g. getting real world data from users)