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Comment by DyslexicAtheist | Hacker News Reader

yes it's likely that these domains end up on some list.

E.g.:

   $ curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ZeroDot1/CoinBlockerLists/master/hosts|grep salon.com
   0.0.0.0 worker.salon.com

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Yikes, you'd think a media company would be smarter than to use a software that returns hundreds of articles about malware as the top results of a google search for its name.

Salon is well known for some poor quality journalism/blogging. Not surprised to see that is reflected in their management/technology descions.

I had never really read anything from this site before and just searched it in Google News. Wow, you weren't wrong. And I'm probably THE target audience for that site (unabashedly leftist). It's very trashy.

Why would they care? They make money off of the ads, if you use an ad blocker, you just run up their server costs. Don't think they care.

Because your site showing up in other news outlets under a title like "Salon Magazine running cryptojacking malware on users" is terrible publicity.

I get that they are using the version which asks for consent, but why even take the risk of associating yourself with such a shady piece of software? If you make money of ads, you'd think you wouldn't want to do things that might scare away your users.

The software (script) itself is not malicious, it's the way it's used in a lot of cases. It's similar to how torrents are usually used for piracy, but has some legitimate uses.

Yes, I know that. But public perception doesn't really see it this way. It's more like torrent == bad && malware == bad

Many media companies doesn't think longer than their nose. Only thinks about money but not the impact the decisions they make.

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