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Sesse__today at 2:45 PM1 replyview on HN

This is called “installing a cryptominer on your web page” and is generally considered illegitimate.


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armchairhackertoday at 5:15 PM

> generally considered illegitimate

But why? Obviously an unjustified cryptominer is bad, like unnecessarily slow JavaScript, but this one has a good purpose and to the user is no different than PoW.