Ok... Quick poll. If you had to pick one. Would you choose ads on legitimate sites? Or, would you allow them to mine cryptocurrency in your browser with permission with no ads? Lets say <10% CPU.
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I agree magic, wold peace and unicorns would be awesome.
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I don't have a machine that produces world peace and unicorns. I do have one that blocks all ads and miners, and so does anyone else who wants to.
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Nope, response to your publishers realize comment.
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Oh. Yeah, getting them to realize requires ramping up the usage rates. Which requires pushing out-of-the-box blocking into mainstream browsers or mainstreaming & improving ones already doing it (e.g. Brave).
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Don't be naive. Print media is slowly dying, how do you think publishers keep the content coming, if every site wouldn't be filled with ads? Cancerous, but necessary. Mining anyday over ads. Browsers will throttle background processes for inactive tabs so...
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We can and will block them both. I'm not their business model consultant; I'm a user advocate. If they want me or someone else to develop ethical models for them to get paid, they can pay for it.
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It's ads and paywalls for those who do not pay for a subscription. And unfortunately, there are ways to detect adblockers and block the users of those entirely. If you could "pay" without actually spending money and without even noticing it, wouldn't you want that instead of ads?
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Adblocker detection is easily defeated. Your "pay without spending money" argument is nonsense. You're paying by letting hostile code from sketchy sources run in your browser where it's one exploit away from compromising everything.
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"Without even noticing it" is bullshit too. Even if no malicious code runs, you notice the ad or the miner by your battery dying after 3 hours instead of 8 hours.
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The poll was about < 10% of the CPU power. If you're sane, you run it in a web worker that runs in another thread so it won't affect page performance. And browsers, at least Chrome throttle background tabs so even if you leave the tab open...
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None of that mitigates battery consumption, nor does it mitigate ux issues from cpu load. You're talking about stuff you have no understanding of.
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Whatever you say. The fact is, in the future, you're going to have 3 choices: - mining - ads - paying for your content The content creators need to get paid. Most people (according to analytics) don't want to pay with money. Which is why there are alternative methods.
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So how do you propose they give you free content with no way of making money and still stay afloat?
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