Recently Coinhive has been pretty popular with website owners as it allows them to just include a script on their webpage and make money, mining on user's machines often without them knowing. Even more scary is people have been abusing continuous integration services like Travis CI on GitHub, which operate for free and replacing tests with coin mining code which then gets run by the free Travis CI service.
This kind of behavior is only going to hurt Bitcoin in the long run. People are going to hear about the evil websites that slow down and overheat their computer, destroying battery life on laptops. If websites want to move from ads to user mining they need to do it in a transparent way, i.e. a switch in the user's profile/settings that allows them to switch out ads for browser mining. Unfortunately for Travis CI, it may not be so easy for them to stop people from abusing their great service.
What can we do as a community to keep this kind of stuff in check?
Topic: Thoughts about javascript browser-based mining on user's machines? (Read 170 times)
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