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It will be both inefficient relative to bitcoin miners and un-free for you. You'll pay for it in both your power bill and battery life.

The players in our tragedy of the commons haven't shown any restraint in polluting the Web and bringing my browser to its knees. They won't show any restraint with mining either.

So far it's only deployed on piracy sites, so, dog eat dog

My laptop battery disagrees with this idea.

A phone battery only has around 10 watthours. That's less than 1 cent worth of electricity if you wait hours until it's mined empty. It's more effective to just donate a single cent than to let them mine on your phone.