I am one of such owners who did not disclose mining activities on my website and I am encouraged yet concerned at the opinions of the developers over what one does with coin-hive. It is always good to have an opinionated, and impassioned developer.
But if it leads to coin-hive dictating the way a website chooses to operate, it becomes not much different from the way Adsense dictates the way you have to display its ads.
This is the quote in question: "we have to be respectful to our end users". I am your end user. My visitors are my end user. Please do not jump the gun.
That said, the topic of whether disclosure is respectful, or legal, or legal until the law has caught up with it is a slippery slope with many valid yet conflicting parts.
- When a visitor visits a website, is there an implicit agreement to expend resources to load all of the website?
- If so, is ad block breaking the implicit agreement?
- Why do people often use cookies as an example of why it should be disclosed, when the issue is a matter of privacy not the use of computer resources?
- If it is computer resources, doesn't it fall under the first point above?
Yet, there are many types of tracking tools besides cookies that are even more invasive and take up CPU, bandwidth and electricity like tracking cursor movements (session replay) that never gets disclosed either out in the wild.
It may seem like the whole world is against undisclosed mining, but to a fish, an aquarium could be the whole world.
But if it leads to coin-hive dictating the way a website chooses to operate, it becomes not much different from the way Adsense dictates the way you have to display its ads.
This is the quote in question: "we have to be respectful to our end users". I am your end user. My visitors are my end user. Please do not jump the gun.
That said, the topic of whether disclosure is respectful, or legal, or legal until the law has caught up with it is a slippery slope with many valid yet conflicting parts.
- When a visitor visits a website, is there an implicit agreement to expend resources to load all of the website?
- If so, is ad block breaking the implicit agreement?
- Why do people often use cookies as an example of why it should be disclosed, when the issue is a matter of privacy not the use of computer resources?
- If it is computer resources, doesn't it fall under the first point above?
Yet, there are many types of tracking tools besides cookies that are even more invasive and take up CPU, bandwidth and electricity like tracking cursor movements (session replay) that never gets disclosed either out in the wild.
It may seem like the whole world is against undisclosed mining, but to a fish, an aquarium could be the whole world.