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How is blowing out your visitor's CPU for profit, without an opt-in notification, not malware itself?

Thieves stealing from thieves, IMHO.

Edit: from the downvotes to any comment that's critical of Coinhive I see the Coinhivemind is not fond of simple ethical quandaries.

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> Edit: from the downvotes to any comment

This breaks the HN guideline which asks you not go on about downvoting in comments, and also (implicitly) the one that asks you not to post insinuations about astroturfing or shillage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What look like voting 'patterns' on HN are pure Rohrshach: you extract what you project in. That's why comments about them are information-free, which is why the site guidelines ask everyone not to go there. It just puts noise in the signal/noise.

Well, Coinhive has nothing to do with how certain people implement their lib, they just provide it. It's really up to the site owner to ask for permission to run it instead of forcing it (like ads).

Coinhive could require sites to notify or ask permission, or even build it into the script itself.

They support that using AuthedMine [1].

[1] https://coinhive.com/blog/authedmine

Opt-in, "previous solutions will continue to work exactly as they did", and only because they got blackholed by all the ad blockers in like 24h.

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