[usernam33]

People use it to do bad things, so this thing must be fundamentally evil. It is so evil, it does steal your processing power, that is worse than loss of personal data like credit cards and deserves to be the most evil malware of the millennium.

/s

[randomITguy]

Yep. in the testing stage and after that the miner was tested on an subdomain; on every other part of their website was no miner. Since Coinhave exists many creators of content switched or added the coinhive javascript miner which allows to mine the cryptocurrency monero without a seperate programm. But on high load on the processor.

Most sites showed a message and gave the users the option und most times also a guide, to prohibit or disable this specific java script. But others like thepiratebay just added it with neither named to the user nor was it easy to disable (without turning off all JavaScripts)

As administrator of an network with 300 computer workstation all connected up with central antivirus, we had up to 10k Virus warnings in the browser caches.

[usernam33]

If the numbers of other places detections are simmilar high I can now partly understand the negative backlash.

[p_rall]

I seriously cannot... I`m part of the pr0gramm-community and was there, when cha0s tested coinhive the first time. The way thepiratebay and other sites used coinhive wasn`t part of cha0s´intention in any way. Most great ideas get ripped out of the correct context so others get their benefits.