Don't you think my anti-virus should show me a warning before letting me access a website that has control over my CPU? You said I would be asked for consent before accessing my CPU power. Well, you didn't. I was greeted by some game modal that doesn't directly asks if it's okay for you to use my computer power.
When you land on loot.game your CPU is not used until you click on the start button. Your consent is the fact that you have to make an action in order to start collecting. As soon as you clicked the start button a clear message appears in the bottom left on the site :
https://i.imgur.com/R7TRTD2.jpgYou have full control over your CPU. We don't control it neither, it's the opposite, we provide you with all the necessary tools to control it by yourself.
The modal settings window allows you to :
- Start/stop collecting
- setup real time speed
- setup max speed allow you to limit the power you grant to websites using our platform
- independent opt-in/opt-out (by site basis)
Regarding the anti-virus it depends which one you're using. For instance Kaspersky is not seeing our miner as malware (
https://twitter.com/Moonifyio/status/1015119758440697856)
Another important thing to say is, our miner is never using more than half of your cpu threads.
That has been said I really appreciate your feedback, it's the most valuable thing for us to improve.
If it has not been clear enough for you it means that we can do better and we will.
We really hope to participate to a shift about the narrative around browser mining.
Thank you again.
