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Similar, but the article above is talking about miners delivered through ad networks without the publishers consent. Publishers pushing miners themselves is su
by soared 9y ago
Similar, but the article above is talking about miners delivered through ad networks without the publishers consent.
Publishers pushing miners themselves is super interesting, but definitely not fraud like in this article.
- ChuckMcM 9y agoI understood the context of the article, but I was encouraging you to go a bit deeper. "bad guys" are not the only group that might be motivated by having your browser mine bitcoin. And "publishers" make the API call out to the ad network and get the ad ready to show in their page pipeline. I was insinuating that there is a financial interest by the publisher to "make more on ads" that is abetted by injecting bitcoin mining into the ads they serve up. Doing this in the ads gives them a great 'out' when they are discovered "oh its bad actors in the ad network, what can we do?" The Salon article is a demonstration that publishers do in fact consider this as an alternative. I doubt Salon was the only one and I doubt that all publishers would be so ethical as to "ask first" given their behavior in the adblocking war.