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                                1. Respect to my former associates, but this is a bad implementation for a number of reasons. Most prominently because it isn't clear about what it is doing. But also, this makes Salon the first large news website to implement CoinHive JamesHitchcock/963084258708480001
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                                Putting that aside this is also not great because for all the high-minded rhetoric, what they are doing is mining crypto currency and they are not doing it particularly well. My computer instantly took a hit when I turned it on. Chrome is only running Salon right now.
                                oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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                              I know that Salon has had a bad history with subscriptions (at one point editors were actually breaking their own paywall) but really, this is a better idea than asking for subscriptions? I don't think so.
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                            Also it does not appear to be adapting to my computer's attempt to use other programs at the same time at all. It's not dropping to give CPU or memory over to other programs at all, only to allow for use on its own site
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                          Though it isn't doing that well, it is causing its own videos to freeze
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                        It does turn itself off properly when ads are unblocked, which is good. But not the greatest implementation, mostly due to it being an aggressive hit (I'm not sure if you can adjust CoinHive down, but it is heavy here) and badly explained to users.
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                      It's also bad because for however high minded CoinHive is, it was immediately being used as an abusive technology, both by advertisers profcarroll/950379534687395840
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                    And by browsers Chronotope/927922317421924352
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                  Which makes this move, from a media-on-media standpoint, look more like implementing RevContent then something groundbreaking.
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                I am fully sympathetic to Salon as a previous employee and always wish them well, but this is not a great path to take. I think the point at which this kind of thing was acceptable for a news site has both come and gone at this point.
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              Your average consumer is more aware of site performance than ever before. Many running ad blockers are doing so *for that reason*. Does not seem like this heavy hand on your CPU will resonate well with that audience, but I guess we'll have to see.
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            That said, this is a very new world that Salon is entering. I hope they're sharing whatever cryptocurrency they are making with their employees.
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          Also, not a great time to be implementing CoinHive considering that it came out on Salon less than 24 hours after this article hit - motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbpbz4/creators-of-in-browser-cryptocurrency-miner-coinhive-say-their-reputation-couldnt-be-much-worse
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        And CoinHive is considered so frequently used in fraud that you can't DM the project's URL to someone on Twitter as far as I can tell. Or at least I can't. Can you?
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      Also it is being blocked by antivirus software - blog.malwarebytes.com/security-world/2017/10/why-is-malwarebytes-blocking-coinhive/
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    Anyway, I can't speak to the current mindset or business at Salon; but I wouldn't have implemented CoinHive while I was there. Just based on performance considerations alone, without the ethical concerns (of which there are a number), and def not with this roundabout explanation.
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      PS: It is never a good sign when your CEO has to precede his statement on a new strategy with "This is not a farce" digiday.com/media/salon-ad-block-users-let-us-use-computers-mine-cryptocurrency-really/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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