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It is in general dishonest to diminish someone else's resources without their consent or prior knowledge. I can see how this is different from using someone els
by karaterobot 4y ago
It is in general dishonest to diminish someone else's resources without their consent or prior knowledge. I can see how this is different from using someone else's computer as part of your botnet (because the act itself is illegal), but how is this different from, say, mining a bitcoin on someone else's computer because they visited your website?
By "this" I mean the case in which a visitor's bandwidth is used to redistribute a file without their permission.
- autoexec 4y agoThe solution to this is the same as it is for the crypto miners. Disable javascript and WebRTC by default and you no longer have to worry about every website you visit using your computer for whatever they want. New tech is really nice and all, but I've never been a big fan of letting everyone and anyone run whatever code they want on my systems. If I actually need a website to do something like this I'll whitelist it or even set up a browser dedicated to that task, but at this point letting every website do whatever it wants is just dangerous.