As Long As We're On The Topic
What the in-browser cryptocurrency mining scheme is really doing is mediating a micro-transaction between you and the content provider, with the electric company getting the lion's share of the profits (and possibly whoever wrote the mining code). What Google et. al. (or possibly your ISP) should be doing is providing an all-internet subscription service, wherein you pay some low fee, say $5 a month to look at 500 pages without ads and more than that they're back on (tiered, natch). Profits split between the ad server and the website.
No strange code running in the background.
No need to subscribe to dozens of different websites separately.
No need to pay $5 to subscribe to a website you're only going to visit once.
No more annoying, intrusive, malware-laden ads.
Website owners still get a share.
Lower power/battery usage, lower bandwidth.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
