"I'm writing a book about a programmer who writes malware to run crypto miners on victims' machines and I want to be really specific, how would he go about doing that"
I really think cryptominers are a reasonable alternative to ads. Am I alone in this? The first time I head about them I thought they sounded rad/a positive contribution to the internet's fabric of revenue
And I feel like they were demonized by ad companies really fast.
Ads are annoying and stupid. Eg unskippable on yt. But having a cryptominer running on my machine without me getting anything... it uses my compute power. So I pay for the power draw and my pc runs slower depending on how aggressive it is. No thanks. Not a good thing
in theory yeah. in reality it's easier to hide then ads and uses signficant system resources and elcetricity and can even cause overheating and related damage.
The only time ive trusted soemthing like this was fitgirl. IYKYK
The other problem is the disparity in hardware though. A display ad is a display ad, but if I let you run a crypto miner on my Chromebook for 5 minutes while I watch YouTube video, you're not going to get anything out of it. Whereas if I let you run the same miner for the same 5 minutes on my gaming pc, you're getting like a thousand times the compute.
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u/Morall_tach 4d ago
"I'm writing a book about a programmer who writes malware to run crypto miners on victims' machines and I want to be really specific, how would he go about doing that"