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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! NiemanReports/1049378952526094337
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This is a bad idea on desktop and it is an even worse idea on mobile and the idea of getting users devices to mine for you while they sleep is An Incredibly Ready To Be Exploited For Evil idea like beyond foolish and unethical.
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Crypto miners are literally a virus infecting ad tech worming its way on to pages and some asshole proposes to tell users to install it? Of course, this is during the ONA annual tech trends presentation. Usually, those are just vaporware but this is DUMB and DANGEROUS.
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How this doesn't have a quote from literally anyone on the engineering side of a publisher explaining why this is an incredibly bad product is just malfeasance.
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Don't do this. DON'T DO THIS. DO. NOT. ASK. YOUR. READERS. TO. INSTALL. CRYPTO-MINING Software.
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A brief list of all the problems here: - You're training users to enact a dangerous behavior on your behalf. - The crypto exchange rate isn't nearly stable enough to be reliable as a source of income - You're not being environmentally responsible.
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- You're taking advantage of readers who don't understand how power-draw works when crypto-mining. You are disenfranchising them. - Readers don't understand cryptocurrency, they don't understand blockchain, you *Are Not* going to successfully explain it to them.
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- You're tying a revenue source to a monetary exchange unit primarily used to enact the kind of deals you would report on as news and this is t/f an ethical compromise. - Civil is NOT A GOOD EXAMPLE OF ANYTHING.
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- This Does Not Work on desktop or in Brave or anywhere else. - You're training readers to be less aware of bad behavior or dangerous behavior on their device because you are saying they should expect it.
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- Device capacity is not reliable enough for this not to be dangerous. Like melt a charger dangerous. Like people putting their phones on bed sheets and LIGHTING THEM ON FIRE dangerous. You are literally suggesting they run it at night.
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This is a Physical Safety Issue. FFS have some common sense before promoting this utter nonsense.
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That type of thinking is what got us to the current place. It is bad. It is problematic. It is dangerous. Any new revenue is not worth it for a news organization because news organizations have goals in addition to Making Money.
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