Salon Will Let You Read Ad-Free If You Help It Mine Cryptocurrency

“On Sunday, the site began presenting visitors using ad blockers with the option to ‘Suppress Ads’ in exchange for ‘allowing Salon to use your unused computing power.’ … Through the use of a Monero mining plugin called Coinhive, the online magazine is essentially cobbling together the spare processing power from a bunch of readers’ computers to create a virtual server farm that can mine cryptocurrencies.”