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How People will Steal your Computer Processing Power and Why You’ll Like it!
Websites are using visitors CPUs to mine digital currency as a replacement for web ads and it is the most intriguing development I have read of in a while. This is mainly been done on illegal websites which cannot monetise through advertising due to Googles rules against profiting from pirate content.
OK — this might seem immoral
But it provides a fascinating insight into the future of the internet
Like a lot of things that start online, what begins as borderline illegal often becomes mainstream. Innumerable instances of the next evolution of tech have from the cross hairs of government to the forefront of public consumption.
What started as Napster gave birth to streaming
Spotify can thank the flack, legal challenges and trailblazing that Napster took for the streaming revolution they have benefited from. Often, it only takes a slight tweak of an illegal model to establish a thriving platform which grows to take over the world.
