[michaelmrose]

Mining in the background is worse than ads because it will be silently ruining the battery life of your laptop or silently running up your electric bill on your desktop.

Note that at 12c per kilowatt hour 200W of extra draw on a machine that's always running is 2.4c per hour.

Over the expected 5 year lifespan of a machine this could cost you $880 in the EU this would be more like $1980 because electricity is on average more expensive there.

Stealing up to 2K from users isn't much more friendly that cryptolockers.

[dest]

Think about how much ads steal from you, by tricking your brain into buying stuff you don't need.