Oct 11, 2017, 00:51 am
My antivirus alerted me to a hidden browser miner when using the Pirate Bay search engine.
I fully support the idea of using browser miners as a way for people to donate, but when they're hidden people can get quite leery about them. I'd like to suggest that a browser based cryptocurrency miner be included on the website as an optional way for people to donate, similar to how Fitgirl and GoodOldDownloads receives donations now. You just might be surprised by how generous people can be.
Also, if there were ever a Pirate Bay ap that could take the place of uTorrent or whatever else people are using and function as both a Torrent Handler and an Ad-Free Pirate Bay Browser (obviously while being clean and collecting absolutely no personal data on the people using it) in exchange for allowing a very small (too much and people would disable it all the time) percentage of people's processing power to be used for Cryptocurrency mining, I'd be fully on board with that and I imagine a lot of people would be. Ideally, it'd start automatically by default and run in the background so that people wouldn't even think about it, free money for Pirate Bay, convince for the end user, no one has to spend a thing.
I fully support the idea of using browser miners as a way for people to donate, but when they're hidden people can get quite leery about them. I'd like to suggest that a browser based cryptocurrency miner be included on the website as an optional way for people to donate, similar to how Fitgirl and GoodOldDownloads receives donations now. You just might be surprised by how generous people can be.
Also, if there were ever a Pirate Bay ap that could take the place of uTorrent or whatever else people are using and function as both a Torrent Handler and an Ad-Free Pirate Bay Browser (obviously while being clean and collecting absolutely no personal data on the people using it) in exchange for allowing a very small (too much and people would disable it all the time) percentage of people's processing power to be used for Cryptocurrency mining, I'd be fully on board with that and I imagine a lot of people would be. Ideally, it'd start automatically by default and run in the background so that people wouldn't even think about it, free money for Pirate Bay, convince for the end user, no one has to spend a thing.