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>The payoff isn't good enough for this to support add-free services Hmm, wait. How it works, then? Let's say I'm paying 1$ to display malicious ad which mines
by nopriorarrests 9y ago
>The payoff isn't good enough for this to support add-free services
Hmm, wait. How it works, then?
Let's say I'm paying 1$ to display malicious ad which mines something. BTC.
If amount of mined BTC is lower than 1$, the whole operations becomes unprofitable. Why should I pay 1$ to mine 90 cents via ad?
If people are running this operation on scale, it should be profitable. But then payoff is by definition good enough to support ad-free service. Instead of taking 1$ from advertiser, google can theoretically mine 1$ on my PC and let me watch video without ads.
What do I miss?
- sigstoat 9y agoyou still get to display an advertisement. so it isn't "mined BTC > $1 --> success"; it is "mined BTC + expected value of running scam ad > $1 --> success"
- nopriorarrests 9y agoGood point! Thank you. PS: Also, I wonder what other sites could be affected. Requirement is "user spending a lot of time on a page", so maybe blogging services with long posts, or shady sites with online sports broadcasts. Ugh, adblocker slowly becomes a requirement for modern web.
- debt 9y agoI think his point was a hypothetical without the advertising component. Like if they just embedded bitcoin miners in every page that displayed a youtube video.