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That's true, but cryptominers will have a distinctive pattern when running. Ie: consuming a lot of cpu for a lot of time. So with some more work a blocker for this can emerge and kill obfuscated miners. Since miners really need to run to generate revenue while ads are sold on per view of click basis, incentive to play nice and be transparent with the user might be higher?


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