[discussion] AV vendors and the future
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i’m amazed by all of this – first TPB runs a mining script and the news is everywhere, then a few days later there’s a WP plugin!
i think this could be a great way for the little guy to gen some revenue, however i think it *must* be an opt-in thing
i see that the AV companies and ad-blockers (uBlock Origin for one) are already jumping on this and this could potentially make JS miners a thing of the past before it ever gets going
and i don’t think that running these scripts secretly is going to help promote these miners in any way whatsoever – in fact, i’m sure it will piss-off a lot pf people
i ask the dev to think of the future here and make the ‘opt-in’ approach the only way to run the script … and then try and work with the AV guys to get it whitelisted
otherwise i think it will be DOOM for these miners and i suspect the WP crew will blacklist these scripts as well
from Coinhive, emphasis added:
We’re a bit saddened to see that some of our customers integrate Coinhive into their pages without disclosing to their users what’s going on, let alone asking for their permission. We believe there’s so much more potential for our solution, but we have to be respectful to our end users.
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