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Discussion on: Mining cryptocurrencies instead of having ads?

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Leslie Bruder

Coinhive is blocked by virus scanners - or at the very least AVG and Avast blocks the background version, something I feel you'd run into a lot more than ad blockers.

Another issue is the site (i.e user) can control how much CPU usage the miner uses, which in theory seems fine but could result in abuse that deeply affects the end user, and could even start to affect sites if people start using script blockers religiously again