4 ms·

Even if I have 100% battery, I don't want any of it going to ads or miners. For anything else, the OS already bugs the hell out of users when battery is low.

• mschuster91 9y ago
  For me it's rather a miner than ads. Ads are obnoxious, some of them actual malware - get me rid of all the porn, viagra and tracking ads and I'll happily run a miner for you.
  • mattmanser 9y ago
    Last site I was on with a miner I noticed as my laptop fan started going into vacuum mode. They'll just max out a core (all of them if they could). It's definitely not cool with me, an insane waste of electricity.
    • mschuster91 9y ago
      It does waste electricity, yes, and that's, to get back to the topic, something that a well-designed Power API could help keep in check. Still, I prefer giving a "mining" contribution to a website operator (who actually needs some kind of revenue to live) over watching obnoxious ads and having my every move end up in dozens of tracker databases, in addition to hackers distributing malware over ad networks.
      • pdimitar 9y ago
        I prefer blocking them so bad they go out of business. If you can't pay to host your website then you don't have a viable business model and shouldn't be on the internet in the first place. I am not indebted to anyone to allow them to use my machine's resources for their monetary goals. If they want to make money off of me, make it clear -- I can respect that if I value your content. But exploiting browsers that are not caught up with latest security practices is being a scum and I will not tolerate it, ever.