Noisy fans screeching into action when you visit the Salon website? I doubt anyone will be much of a fan of that. And indeed, some users report that the slight rise in computing power activates their computer’s cooling fans. Most computers have fans that automatically turn on to dissipate heat when more processing power is used - regardless of the cause. More intensive computing processes use more computing power for instance, having many applications open or using processor-intensive programs like Adobe Photoshop will heat up your computer, as its processor has more current running through it. Just take a look at this in the FAQ:Īny time that your computer is turned on, its central processing unit (CPU) is being used to some extent. You’d be wrong to think, however, that Salon’s cryptocurrency-mining activity won’t have any impact on your computer. Just in the last few days we’ve seen US and UK government websites hijacked by a poisoned plugin that used Coinhive code to mine cryptocurrency, and reports of Android apps in the official Google Play store that mined Monero behind users’ backs. It’s an alternative way for Salon to pay its costs, and – quite frankly – may turn out to be more attractive to some people than taking the risk of allowing ads to appear.Ĭryptomining is *hot* right now.
If you don’t want to disable your ad blocker, maybe you’ll feel comfortable letting it run code from Coinhive which will gobble up your computer’s resources to mine some Monero cryptocurrency. The Salon website, however, has taken a different route as you can see if you visit its website today.
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