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At least it helps strengthen the crypto-currencies, which is a good thing. I'd be curious how much CPU is wasted rendering billions of ads, especially video, I
by gtrubetskoy 9y ago
At least it helps strengthen the crypto-currencies, which is a good thing.
I'd be curious how much CPU is wasted rendering billions of ads, especially video, I suspect it's a lot more than the crypto hashing, and three orders of magnitude more money is made by this "borrowing" of your CPU in exchange for letting you read the site you're looking at.
- kobeya 9y agoIt does no such thing. If the miner is not paying for the electricity, then they can costlessly use it to attack the main chain. This lowers security.
- benjaminjackman 9y agobut not opportunity costlessly
- yborg 9y agoI don't know how associating cryptocurrency with malware in the minds of millions of people is a good thing. It reinforces the idea that this is a medium of exchange used by criminals.
- userbinator 9y agoI'd be curious how much CPU is wasted rendering billions of ads, especially video, I suspect it's a lot more than the crypto hashing The exact opposite. Video decoding is done quite efficiently in hardware now, and displaying ad images is not much worse than any other image or video. There is certainly an impact, but it's not continuous 100% client processor usage. On the contrary, mining is basically going to push the processor to 100% and keep it there just by virtue of how it works.
- ec109685 9y agoThat isn’t true. Most Video ads on sites use a ton of cpu.
- cooper12 9y agoMost video (excepting more modern codecs) is hardware accelerated, which if I understand correctly, uses the video card and is more efficient.