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Pointer
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TL;DR - Mining coins to solve captchas

I was puzzled when I clicked to download something and this little captcha thingy appeared. I clicked, as usual, to solve it, but was amazed to look just a progess bar going and going... then I saw a little legend that says "what's this?", click and this is the link

https://coinhive.com/info/...

Practically, you're mining Monero instead of watching ads and solving regular captchas...

What are your thoughts on this?

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  • 2
    That's pretty cool.

    Beats a really fucking stupid and irrelevant to me ad.
  • 3
    Mining on someone else's hardware? Go fuck yourself. Ads are just ads. Mining, no no.

    Edit: @Pointer nothing against you personally. Just my thoughts on mining.
  • 2
    @olback Oh, I get it, I didn't do it, I just stumbled around to this, and for me, yeah, it's shitty.
  • 1
    Already have the coinhive stuff on my blacklist...
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