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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.
Cloudflare must die. It's the ultimate cross-site tracking MITM — worse than ads and pixel beacons because there's no way around it — and its CAPTCHA mechanism makes Tor browsing a PITA.
See: Brave browser
> 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.
Ouch!
What about providing something to help cover the costs of creating content you consumed? Do the words "immoral" and "heinous" apply there in any way?
Rgds
Damon
http://m.earth.org.uk/
> I was claiming there are only two ways to fund websites and that you're obliged to pick one of them
That is indeed what you were doing when you rejected the answer "Neither"
Here is an example:
Q. Would you like Cake or Pie?
A. Neither, I would like Ice-cream.
Now what part of OR do you not understand?? There are AT LEAST 4 different permutations:
A=Ads B=Bitcoin
A=0 B=0 I'm NOT OK with either one.
A=0 B=1 I'm OK with Bitcoin
A=1 B=0 I'm OK with Ads
A=1 B=1 I'm OK with either Ads or Bitcoin
Gee, if only there was MORE then 2 options to crowdfunding.
What you should have asked is this:
Q. For funding the websites you visit would you prefer -- pick all that apply:
[ ] Ads, or
[ ] Background JS running Bitcoin miners OR
[ ] Patreon, OR
[ ] Donate button, OR
[ ] Other. Please specify _ _ _ _ OR
[ ] Nothing. I don't want to financially support you.
QED.
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You can't fix stupid, but you can fix ignorant
> when all I've done is ask which of two options is better.
You are assuming that either option is better. I disagree with your premise.
Analogy(*) Time!
Q. Would you like to be:
* Raped first, then murdered? OR
* Murdered first, then Raped?
A. The response NEITHER is a VALID answer.
There are at LEAST _four_ different answers -- some sick fucko might go "Both?"
(*) I neither approve nor condone. This imaginary example is just for illustration purposes only to make a point how stupid some people's logic is.