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Maybe you could develop a better utility for this (not that a good old DDoS isn't fun and all). Instead of irritating ads you could sell invisible "adspace" an

Maybe you could develop a better utility for this (not that a good old DDoS isn't fun and all). Instead of irritating ads you could sell invisible "adspace" and the value would actually be in the fact that you were enabling a massive distributed computing effort. Imagine if SETI at home or several other distributed projects bought ads and had them process the work. It's a more productive monetization strategy than telling me how I can lose weight or grow my dick. Edit: I'm thinking more about this and I think it'd be fun to work on if anyone feels the same way.

dangrossman 13y ago
It's more productive but less profitable. The potential "advertisers" would only advertise with this network if they could purchase computing time through it at a lower rate than the spot price on Amazon EC2 -- otherwise they'd get their computation done faster and cheaper going to EC2. At the current spot prices EC2 charges, this network could not pay out within even two orders of magnitude of the CPMs even low-quality sites earn from ads now. The processing power of JavaScript time slices on commodity laptops is just too far apart from running compiled code on even the slowest EC2 instance size. That means it's unlikely for a significant publisher base to develop to sell the ads onto. If you're interested in working on it, there's at least one or two startups trying it at any given time you could try to work with. http://crowdprocess.com/ http://crowdprocess.com/ is relatively new. Many have had the same idea and eventually closed down.