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Cloudflare Ditches Sites That Use Coinhive Mining "malware" (betanews.com)
Mark Wilson writes: Bitcoin has been in the news for some time now as its value climbs and drops, but most recently interest turned to mining code embedded in websites. The Pirate Bay was one of the first sites to be seen using Coinhive code to secretly mine using visitors' CPU time, and then we saw similar activity from the SafeBrowse extension for Chrome. The discovery of the code was a little distressing for visitors to the affected sites, and internet security and content delivery network (CDN) firm Cloudflare is taking action to clamp down on what it is describing as malware. Torrent proxy site ProxyBunker.online has contacted TorrentFreak to say that Cloudflare has dropped it as a customer. The reason given for ProxyBunker's suspension is that the site has been using Coinhive code on several of the domains it owns.
> would you prefer ads or background JS running Bitcoin miners funding the websites you visit?
False Dichotomy, much?
The answer is: Neither:
* Ads are immoral -- they don't respect my time, space, bandwidth, or money, so Fuck-Off with your blatant greed,
* Stealing my CPU resources is just as heinous.
Your monetization problem is not my problem.
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