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We're experimenting with a new way to power our Datafiniti search engine. Essentially you get paid for running a distributed web crawler through any Chrome Ext
by jdrock 12y ago
We're experimenting with a new way to power our Datafiniti search engine. Essentially you get paid for running a distributed web crawler through any Chrome Extension.
- Fastidious 12y agoWho gets paid? The Chrome Extension developer? But it is the user machine/network performing the work, right? There is something in this I don't like. Can't quite put my finger on it.
- jdrock 12y agoOur intention is to pay the developer. Of course, there'd be nothing stopping the developer from paying out to users as well. Happy to get more feedback!
- jlt 12y ago"Nothing stopping the developer from paying out to users as well" - this is absolutely ridiculous; of course a developer with absolutely no payment infrastructure is going to start relaying these ill-gotten gains back to users. It just doesn't work like that.