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by KozmoNau7 3053 days ago
It's wasting CPU/GPU cycles and battery power, vastly more than would be used for a simple micropayment with actual currency.

I refuse to participate in the degradation of my devices' performance as "payment".

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More than the current system of loading thousands of ad networks?
Same same.

I block ads with great prejudice and I'll block miners with equal prejudice.

Both are a waste of my bandwidth, my battery power and my attention.