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.
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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And 4. Continuing to miner-block and adblock.
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Look what
@Forbes does. Adblock turned on, you're just not getting that first pageview. Surely you can turn it back on (which is what I do) immediately after the page has loaded. There's going to be an useless war between adblockers and content creators, which no one will win. -
Last I checked Forbes articles load fine for me. I never turn off adblock. Yes there will be an endless war, but it's not useless. The alternative (giving up) is rampant malware and tracking destroying security, privacy, and democracy.
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Guess your adblock is better than mine then :') What's the talk on destroying democracy, if something rustles your mindset, just go to another source of content. And don't forget the God Damn Privacy Laws, or GDPR. They should help with privacy.
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How not just adtech & tracking, but the whole system of "get paid for clicks" no matter whether it's ad-based or mining-based or whatever, undermine democracy is actually an interesting topic but deserves more space than Twitter...
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