I guess slow/fast is subjective. It didn't seem like enough time passed for a legitimate ecosystem to develop. Just the basic idea of say hosting a static-site/blog on a VPS with a cryptominer that could pay for itself would have been a game changer - but was probably just the tip of the iceberg of possibilities. Instead we're still stuck either having to sell our traffic/info to Google/Microsoft, put up ads, pay for it out of pocket. The entrenched players won
The hacked site boogieman felt overblown (and from what you're saying it sounds like if would have died out anyway). I'm sure it happened, but at least personally I never once came across it. Or if I did, then my CPU spun a bit more and I didn't notice. No real harm done.
More fundamentally we're now in territory where the browser vendors get to decide what javascript is okay to run and which isn't.
Anyway, it's just complaining into the ether :) it is what it is. thanks for the context of the market forces and antivirus companies
> I guess slow/fast is subjective. It didn't seem like enough time passed for a legitimate ecosystem to develop.
Coinhive was live from 2017 - 2019, and it basically ran the whole course from exciting new tech to widely abused to dead over those two years. I don't think it needed more time.
> The hacked site boogieman felt overblown...
Troy Hunt acquired several of the Coinhive domains in 2021 -- two years after the service shut down -- and it was still getting hundreds of thousands of requests a day, mostly from compromised web sites and/or infected routers. It was a serious problem, albeit one which mostly affected smaller and poorly maintained web sites.
The hacked site boogieman felt overblown (and from what you're saying it sounds like if would have died out anyway). I'm sure it happened, but at least personally I never once came across it. Or if I did, then my CPU spun a bit more and I didn't notice. No real harm done.
More fundamentally we're now in territory where the browser vendors get to decide what javascript is okay to run and which isn't.
Anyway, it's just complaining into the ether :) it is what it is. thanks for the context of the market forces and antivirus companies