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I had never heard of coinhive. Is the idea that, instead of using ads or direct payment, the user allows the website to mine for "money" using the client's com
by dhimes 9y ago
I had never heard of coinhive. Is the idea that, instead of using ads or direct payment, the user allows the website to mine for "money" using the client's computational resources? That's actually a pretty cool concept.
- yoz-y 9y agoThe problem is that the user does not "allow" the website to use their CPU and, more importantly, battery. Rather, it is done behind their back.
- dhimes 9y agoThat's why I said "concept," not "implementation." There is a difference. Edit: To be clear, if it was opt-in, whereby you got to choose if you would rather pay money, view ads, or offer cpu cycles in order to view a site, I could see it catching on.
- dagw 9y agoI wonder who many CPU-seconds it would take to 'pay' the equivalent of one ad-view
- dhimes 9y agoGood question. In my mind the users would just run the code for the duration they were on the site- like that @home stuff from years ago, but while browsing a particular site.
- yoz-y 9y agoIt is an interesting concept yes. Also it has the merit of actually accurately measuring the time one spends on the site. (As browsers can throttle JavaScript on tabs which are not in front). How to communicate this to the users is a bit hard though. Should the site show ads and somewhere have a toggle to switch to mining? Would people actually go there?
- dhimes 9y agoOr maybe one of those lovely modal overlays that has the user choose the poison.