Comments on: Thinking about doing something different about monitization

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 10:45:54 +0000

In reply to cozappz.

The mining was 100% opt in. That’s why I liked the idea. If you don’t click it, it just sits idle. It won’t do anything until you click the button, and even then it runs for something like 10 seconds. Load up something to watch your CPU, then hit the button and it’ll spike CPU, it does a unit of work then shuts down.

I thought this was the least obtrusive option, as if you don’t like it, then don’t click it. And if you do like it, it only runs for a few seconds and that’s that.

Auto mining to me is like video ads that auto play.. very annoying.

By: cozappz

cozappz — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 09:22:30 +0000

I hate ads as much as you do. But one of my favourite blogs, of David L. Farquhar has the least intrusive ads. Would you reconsider introducing mining on your blog?

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 05:13:33 +0000

In reply to RoloDeOvo. They did reverse their bonehead decision.. so there is that. I donno. I know I need to step up and create more stuff too.

By: RoloDeOvo

RoloDeOvo — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:14:40 +0000

I was thinking of patreon, but their recent business decisions have been far from stellar. so……… Paypal? or Ko-fi?

By: DOS

DOS — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 00:23:04 +0000

On top of being inefficient, it’s bad for the environment. Also I might need to replace the cooler on my CPU first 🙂

I suspect that even mining JS that asks for your permission first will get blocked by some virus scanners when the JS tries to load.

So I’m sorry but I won’t be opting in to this one, I’d prefer to just give you actual money – I’d almost prefer to send you my credit card number in plain text! 🙂

By: ha

ha — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 09:40:13 +0000

Just setup liberapay instead of wasting energy for laughable returns.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 01:31:43 +0000

In reply to Richard Wells. That's why it'd be optional.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 01:31:08 +0000

In reply to DrScriptt.

That’s why I was thinking something that is opt in. If you don’t want to, you don’t have to.

Just an experiment anyway.

By: DrScriptt

DrScriptt — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 19:03:55 +0000

I believe that many different things are starting to block the JavaScript / WebAssembly mining scripts.

By: Richard Wells

Richard Wells — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 17:26:05 +0000

Please don’t. If I remember the javascript coin mining costs, the user would spend $3 on energy for every $1 of coins generated. Seems to be a very inefficient method of generating income compared to having those willing donate directly.