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In case anyone's interested, I wrote a piece on the Monero miner plus a couple of other 'miners' over here: https://wpplugincheck.com/articles/we-tested-3-mini

by shash7 8y ago

In case anyone's interested, I wrote a piece on the Monero miner plus a couple of other 'miners' over here: https://wpplugincheck.com/articles/we-tested-3-mining-plugins-heres-what-weve-learnt/ https://wpplugincheck.com/articles/we-tested-3-mining-plugin... In my opinion, these things are way better than ads.

zeroname 8y ago
They also pay far less than ads. Also, let us not fool ourselves here, we are blocking both ads and miners.
theamk 8y ago
They are perhaps better at forcing user to install adblockers? I can generally tolerate ads, but when I notice laggy browsing and my laptop’s fan spinning up at max speed, I leave the site pretty quickly, or switch to adblocked browser.
- sam0x17 8y ago
  I've seen ads freeze up my browser, but I have yet to see a miner do the same.
  - jhabdas 8y ago
    On top of that the miner is opt-out and (hopefully) throttled to 30% thread/cpu use (based on session and without cookie) and only while reliably detecting a page is actively in use.