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CoinHive provides two miners: one which runs without asking the user, and one which requires explicit consent from the user.

The version requiring explicit consent is being used on the Salon website, and isn't currently being blocked by AdBlockers/malware detectors.

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It is being blocked as some other commenters showed.

I think the company needs to shut down shop and provide their explicit consent miner under a different name because as long as anyone looking up your company's name can only ever find articles about your company providing malware, you won't be very successful.

It did. The new consent based miner is on and served from authedmine.com

I don't think you understood. The name "CoinHive" is essentially synonymous with cryptojacking. A name change and a refusal to pay out to anyone using the version which does not ask the user are probably good steps for them to take (but obviously they won't do either because $$$)

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