TPB implementing permanent Javascript cryptocurrency miner to the site, thoughts?

12-10-2017, 01:44 AM

fdigl Wrote: It's fucking retarded. Once everyone sees TPB get away with it, you'll start to see it everywhere. Then the internet will be slow af.
I, for one, will be blocking this shit.

True, but torrent sites are closing left and right due to funding, and others are getting taken down. The MAFIAA are trying to target the TPB by reducing the amount of ads and trying to kill them at the source, so you have to credit their ingenuity at finding an alternative method to keep the cash stream flowing.

I don't honestly think it will. I mean, you can always downlock ublocker or a javascript blocker for most (if not all) browsers, and that solves the problem. Most dedicated people will opt to turn those off when they go and search around on those sites. I mean, it's throttled at like 0.3, which isn't a lot of CPU usage, a noticeable spike yeah, but not by much.