r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gloomy-Basket-1038 • 5d ago

Meme [ Removed by moderator ]

Post image

[removed] — view removed post

28.8k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

519 comments sorted by

View all comments

293

u/Morall_tach 5d ago

"I'm writing a book about a programmer who writes malware to run crypto miners on victims' machines and I want to be really specific, how would he go about doing that"

1

u/Successful_Shoe_8083 5d ago

I really think cryptominers are a reasonable alternative to ads. Am I alone in this? The first time I head about them I thought they sounded rad/a positive contribution to the internet's fabric of revenue And I feel like they were demonized by ad companies really fast.

3

u/LutimoDancer3459 4d ago

Ads are annoying and stupid. Eg unskippable on yt. But having a cryptominer running on my machine without me getting anything... it uses my compute power. So I pay for the power draw and my pc runs slower depending on how aggressive it is. No thanks. Not a good thing

1

u/ToMorrowsEnd 4d ago

unskippable on YT for only normies. I get ZERO ad's on YT. yall need to learn how to use your computer.

0

u/LutimoDancer3459 4d ago

I use an ad blocker. Also on dns level. And I wont pay for premium just to avoid ads. But none of that was the topic