Sneak miners
This is an interesting way to gain monies without advertising. Easily blocked if you know how but also much easier to miss like traditional adverts. The web needs to fund itself somehow and ads are now pretty much blocked by default.
( , Thu 12 Oct 2017, 21:18, Share, Reply)
This is an interesting way to gain monies without advertising. Easily blocked if you know how but also much easier to miss like traditional adverts. The web needs to fund itself somehow and ads are now pretty much blocked by default.
( , Thu 12 Oct 2017, 21:18, Share, Reply)
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/10/cryptojacking/
Okay, presumably adding coin-hive.com to your hosts file stops this.
( , Thu 12 Oct 2017, 21:23, Share, Reply)
But there's others.
There's a huge load of non-tech savvy users that will be non the wiser to this, as we well know. At least with ads you can physically see something. It's an interesting debate though, how can the web fund itself?
( , Thu 12 Oct 2017, 21:41, Share, Reply)
There's a huge load of non-tech savvy users that will be non the wiser to this, as we well know. At least with ads you can physically see something. It's an interesting debate though, how can the web fund itself?
( , Thu 12 Oct 2017, 21:41, Share, Reply)
Non-tech-savvy users won't be on TPB...
Non-tech-savvy people don't use bittorrent these days...
( , Thu 12 Oct 2017, 23:08, Share, Reply)
Non-tech-savvy people don't use bittorrent these days...
( , Thu 12 Oct 2017, 23:08, Share, Reply)
I think you missed my point
It's not TPB, it's when other regular sites like those god awful local news ones get hold of the idea.
( , Fri 13 Oct 2017, 8:25, Share, Reply)
It's not TPB, it's when other regular sites like those god awful local news ones get hold of the idea.
( , Fri 13 Oct 2017, 8:25, Share, Reply)
I can see why they're doing it, but who spends more than a few minutes at a time on pirate bay?
( , Thu 12 Oct 2017, 22:05, Share, Reply)
( , Thu 12 Oct 2017, 22:05, Share, Reply)
They got the name of the website which broke the story wrong
I know this because I volunteer there
( , Thu 12 Oct 2017, 23:00, Share, Reply)
I know this because I volunteer there
( , Thu 12 Oct 2017, 23:00, Share, Reply)