"#Coinhive has responded to such criticism by releasing a version of their code called “AuthedMine,” which is designed to seek a Web site visitor’s consent before running the #Monero mining scripts. Coinhive maintains that approximately 35 percent of the Monero cryptocurrency mining activity that uses its platform comes from sites using #AuthedMine."
https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/authedmine/
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2019 20:30:14 UTC Strypey -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2019 21:12:02 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @strypey What? Someone is surprised that users are hostile to the idea of mining currency on their computers without their express permission? (Yet another reason not to allow #JabbaShit / #JavaScript to run by default. #NoScript)
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