Let’s take a look of this new (and possibly lucrative) tendency, why the companies start to do this, if the users are agreeing or not about the companies mining during their visit to its website and the using of the computational power of users.
Using ads as an effective way to make money via users visiting is a well-known method used by companies since web technology supported this. However, with the continuous attacking of malware and hackers through false ads, many consumers have a bad opinion about ads, and, according to the opinions gathered by Engadget, the online advertising is “unwanted, unsafe and prone to infectious malvertising”.