After years of inflation, Americans are used to sticker shock. But nothing compares to the surging price of streaming video.
Last week, Apple TV+ became the latest streaming service to raise its price—up from $6.99 to $9.99 per month—following the example of Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and Netflix, which all hiked their prices in October.
Half of the major streaming platforms in the U.S. now charge a monthly fee that’s double the price they charged when they initially came to market. And many of these streaming services haven’t even been around for 10 years.
Ok, question. I’m totally tech illiterate, but have heard these kinds sites are used to farm for crypto? Like I’d rather just not watch new shows or movies at this point until I can take the time to learn to pirate again safely.
Adblockers should block those scripts too.
Even if it didn’t, don’t worry about it. All it does is run a script on the webpage. It used a little of your CPU time, but otherwise doesn’t affect your PC.
Even if that was true, why would it be bad? As long as they aren’t overdoing it, why would you care?
I think the concern is that the torrent files include trojan crypto farming software that will bog down your computer. I don’t know how realistic that concern is, but it would at least directly affect you.
Well, when you’re that ambiguous, sure you can find streaming sites that mine crypto.
Does that mean this one does? Well, I’d wait until there is evidence before clutching my pearls.
… I’m asking if there is evidence of it, and if so, what that means in terms of effecting PC performance. Or just in general for these kinds of sites if it’s a concern worth having.
I have not seen any evidence that the site I linked mines crypto on user’s machines.