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I wonder if this might not be a viable revenue model for "premium" services. IE: service is "free", but we're gonna use your CPU cycles for our own benefit.
by drspacemonkey 9y ago
I wonder if this might not be a viable revenue model for "premium" services. IE: service is "free", but we're gonna use your CPU cycles for our own benefit.
- kaiserama 9y agoDid you mean "Freemium"? And I think it's a very interesting idea.
- lewisl9029 9y agoI honestly think this could be a great alternative to ad-funding once the economics improve enough to start making it more feasible. As long as browsers had a way to distinguish crypto-mining usage from regular site functionality and is able to throttle it separately when the site opt-into the appropriate APIs, and in other cases detect suspicious levels of sustained CPU activity, perform site-specific throttling and warn users about it. I'd much rather support content creation on the web using processing power than with my privacy and limited attention span.