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> If this is done without explicit permission from the user, I can see it being some sort of hacking offence. When ads are enabled, your browser is sometimes e
by shoo 9y ago
> If this is done without explicit permission from the user, I can see it being some sort of hacking offence.
When ads are enabled, your browser is sometimes executing javascript to conduct part of some ad-auction thing to figure out which is the best ad to show you (i don't work in ad-tech, so this is probably 60% incorrect, but you get the idea).
I don't fundamentally see the difference between a website running unsolicited mining crapware in your browser versus unsolicited adtech crapware. So I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you -- if running mining crapware is regarded as "hacking", then we may as well regard all client side code execution related to adtech as "hacking" too.
- Nursie 9y ago>> I don't fundamentally see the difference between a website running unsolicited mining crapware in your browser versus unsolicited adtech crapware. Misuse of computer resources IMHO, no different to any other sort of code running on someone's machine with authorisation. We'd call this hacking in different circumstances. I don't like the whole ad-auction-crapware thing, obviously, but it seems like it's a different thing to actually start using my hardware for your own calculations, using significant resources, without my explicit consent. I'm sure salon aren't doing this, but I know I've stumbled across quite a few sites that do. -- edit -- this just sparked something in my brain. Imagine Amazon Lambda but executed in the browser, by site visitors just like this...