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Cool concept, but morally dubious. You're basically using people's electricity in the background without people knowing, not unlike bitcoin miner malware.
by martinald 12y ago
Cool concept, but morally dubious. You're basically using people's electricity in the background without people knowing, not unlike bitcoin miner malware.
- taumhn 12y agoNot to mention bandwidth which can in some cases be pretty expensive.
- pgfonseca 12y agoCurrently blocking 3g and 4g (all mobile devices in fact), and working to block satellite internet.
- pgfonseca 12y agoThe plan is to recover unused cycles, and ask the websites who power the platform to add a link to the opt in/out https://ss.crowdprocess.com/opt-out.html https://ss.crowdprocess.com/opt-out.html Having said that, I am the first to admit that many websites aren't currently displaying this, we need to work on that.
- wldlyinaccurate 12y agoIt's extra work for website owners to build/test/maintain opt-out functionality. Have you considered offering a pre-built opt in/out widget which can be re-styled and integrated easily? Or you could even just provide website owners with a "global opt-out" URL that they can stick in their footer.
- pgfonseca 12y agoThis link is a global opt-out :) We don't want anyone on the platform who isn't aware/comfortable with it. Our instructions to the websites (when they join) are to create a link to the opt out page. I supposed it could be a direct opt out
- plam 12y agoIt seems one of the biggest business issues is site visitor perception. I have a couple questions please. What's your opt-rate rate so far out of the sites that have shown this option? do you have any real data regarding hidden cost to a site visitor? like power consumption A/B testing or something?
- pgfonseca 12y agoThe opt out rate has been close to 0, but (in all fairness) that has been due to the way websites choose to display it. A standard for how to display might be called for, perhaps?
- martinald 12y agoWhat do you mean? Unused cycles makes no sense. I'd be really annoyed if my laptop's battery life drops from 5 hours browsing the web to 1hour because it is running at 100% all the time due to this.