alt Hacker Newsbecause then someone will complain that you're stealing their CPU cycles or something, on the website they chose to visit and execute
because then someone will complain that you're stealing their CPU cycles or something, on the website they chose to visit and execute
"Stealing" CPU cycles is exactly what PoW bot protection is doing. The whole point is to add cost to the bots so they decide it's too expensive and give up.
The only difference is the cycles are getting converted into heat now. They could be getting converted into monero instead. It's still heat but at least creator got some money for it.