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What if you explicitly ask for the user's consent? E.g. a confirmation prompt saying "To unlock this content we will use your CPU to mine.". I know Coinhive or
by Kiro 6y ago
What if you explicitly ask for the user's consent? E.g. a confirmation prompt saying "To unlock this content we will use your CPU to mine.".
I know Coinhive originally started like that, for this Polish imageboard where you explicitly had to allow your CPU to mine in order to get premium account time, as an alternative way to just paying for it outright.
- Mordisquitos 6y agoIf the request is honest and straightforward regarding the resources being consumed on the user's device, to what extent it may or may not impact them, and how it benefits the operator, I would have no problem with it beyond my personal misgivings with cryptocurrencies. That is, as long as the consent is not easily confused with just another cookie checkbox to which most web users have become desensitised.