Salon’s Monero mining project might be crazy like a fox

 One news site is taking a novel approach to making ends meet. Salon announced today it would give readers a choice between turning off ad-blocking software or “allowing Salon to use your unused computing power” in order to access their content. If you say yes to the latter deal, Salon will then invite you to install Coinhive, a software plugin that mines the cryptocurrency known… Read More

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February 13, 2018 at 01:32PM

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