Show Navigation
Conversation
Notices
-
I don't buy the "the rise of ad-blockers led to the rise of (whatever bad thing is being discussed)" theories. They are almost always false.
Ad-blocking didn't cause pop-ups and interstitials. Those things predated ad-blockers, and were caused by the abysmally low response rates (click-through) of online ads.
Ad-blocking didn't cause the ads that expand to cover the content of a page or the dashed green underlines within a page's text that pop up small ads when you mouseover them. They are merely a continuation of the trend that started with pop-ups.
Ad-blocking didn't cause tracking. Tracking was caused by the idea that "making ads relevant" would improve click-through rates. It happened independently of ad-blocking.
Now, ad-blocking supposedly caused the rise of surreptitious #JavaScript cryptocoin miners? Does that also explain the existenence of mobile (and desktop) software that contains hidden cryptocurrency miners? Because the two are likely closely related.
-
Just wait until people buy some low-quality knock-off peripheral device that embeds cryptocoin mining in its firmware or driver. If it isn't here yet, it is coming.
There are people are trying desperately to get a relatively large income stream without having to do much work. These are people with more brainpower than ethics.
Which is a much more likely explanation of why people surreptitiously embed miners within things others use. No need to lease a datacenter or populate it with servers and ASIC dongles. Get everyone that visits a site or downloads a mobile app to unwittingly do the work, while $PERSON reaps the reward.
-
What caused all this ?
Greed.
lnxw48a1
mangeurdenuage
All Jonkman Microblog content and data are available under the