Some sites are offering visitors a choice between
allowing ads (disabling ad blockers) or paying subscriptions, as they say they
cannot stay in business without revenue. Atlantic will start the process on April 10
(source: Digiday )
The Atlantic announced this policy as it converts to
https, which Google and other search engines prefer.
The Verge reports that Salon is allowing users the
option of allowing their sites to run a javascript embed that mines for cryptocurrency. This may increase electricity or battery
consumption, and might be bad for the motherboard (overheating) of some
computers. The script comes from
CoinHive. Trend rates that site as safe
but others consider it unacceptable and classify it as malware. Webmasters should be wary of invitations to
run third party scripts on their sites.
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