{"id":245,"date":"2017-09-28T11:19:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=245"},"modified":"2017-09-28T11:19:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:19:54","slug":"ads-dont-work-so-websites-are-using-your-electricity-to-pay-the-bills-technology-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Ads don&#8217;t work so websites are using your electricity to pay the bills | Technology | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>With the continuing collapse in online advertising revenues, websites are turning to other methods to pay their hosting bills \u2013 including using visitors\u2019 computers and phones to mine cryptocurrency.It\u2019s a controversial practice, with some likening it to running malware on visitor\u2019s computers, but it is a potentially lucrative endeavour for websites. The downside is that at best it slows down visitors\u2019 machines, and at worst it can also drain their batteries or send their electricity bills soaring.BitTorrent search engine The Pirate Bay, and US video streaming service Showtime, are two sites that were discovered to be sending mining code to users. The former owned up, posting in mid-September that the code was \u201cjust a test\u201d and that the experiment was being done with a view to removing all adverts from the site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/sep\/27\/pirate-bay-showtime-ads-websites-electricity-pay-bills-cryptocurrency-bitcoin\">Ads don&#8217;t work so websites are using your electricity to pay the bills | Technology | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the continuing collapse in online advertising revenues, websites are turning to other methods to pay their hosting bills \u2013 including using visitors\u2019 computers and phones to mine cryptocurrency.It\u2019s a controversial practice, with some likening it to running malware on visitor\u2019s computers, but it is a potentially lucrative endeavour for websites. The downside is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}