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This is great tech, but I'm worried it might set a precedent for rogue sites stealing my computing power/CPU cycles anytime I visit them.
by il 16y ago
This is great tech, but I'm worried it might set a precedent for rogue sites stealing my computing power/CPU cycles anytime I visit them.
- Klonoar 16y agoYeah, we're still musing on this, it's certainly a known point. Besides the obvious method of offering an "opt out" extension (like Google does with their ad/tracking stuff), there's the more ethical pieces to consider - e.g, loading on Mobile, where people may be paying for data consumption... we shouldn't be taking their data rates high (or potentially using up their battery in the background) for arbitrary reasons. As of right now it doesn't even fire on mobile devices for this reason. tl;dr Good point, we're aware, and there'll be ways to deal with it. Must sleep now.
- jhuckestein 16y agoWhat exactly do you mean with "stealing your CPU cycles"? We've been discussing whether or not to make the computations transparent to the visitor of the sites. The workers could expose an API to site-owners to start/pause/stop/disable the computations. Would that help?
- rarestblog 16y agoWhile watching YouTube video - my CPU load from browser is about 15-20%, that means YouTube player "steals" up to 400 million CPU cycles each second!.. There's nothing to worry about.