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Could “Cryptojacking,” the process of running code in a visitor’s browser to mine online currency, be the end of online advertising? Some argue that this is a possibility, as the average user would be less annoyed by their CPU getting a higher (but imperceivable) workout than ads obstructing or convoluting content.
Users get more content when there are no ads, so prefer sites without them or use ad blockers. Is this a new way to fund these websites - one which users won't notice apart from the benefit of no ads? Yikes! That's what made the internet giants what they are today - and has given many other businesses an otherwise impossible boost by running online campaigns for themselves! If online advertising were to disappear from the internet, we'd be in for a whole new kind of "disruption" for which a word has not yet been invented.
Users get more content when there are no ads, so prefer sites without them or use ad blockers. Is this a new way to fund these websites - one which users won't notice apart from the benefit of no ads? Yikes! That's what made the internet giants what they are today - and has given many other businesses an otherwise impossible boost by running online campaigns for themselves! If online advertising were to disappear from the internet, we'd be in for a whole new kind of "disruption" for which a word has not yet been invented.