I visited the Burans in 2020. Decided to go in winter; figured the risk profile would be lower (security, extreme weather). It's definitely an effort to get to. Sadly one of the Burans was tagged after our visit. The hangar is just next to Gagarin's launchpad, which was fairly amazing to witness.
Stripe is a payment gateway, not an anti-fraud solution. I'd recommend using services such as wyllo or Signifyd for anti-fraud. They will pre-filter against network intelligence signals, and if they approve the transaction, will guarantee your funds, even if a chargeback is lost, and even if you lose.
Because aside from insidious advertisements, it's the only compensation mechanism that provides revenue to publishers without demanding a behavioral change from users.
Obviously, there need to be intelligent structures in place - and these can be enforced by the browser (as they already are today) - CPU limits for inactive tabs, CPU limits based off the computer's power-mode. The ability to disable mining at the cost of seeing advertisements.
I think there is middle ground:
* Browser imposed intelligent CPU limits
* User Preference: Don't want mining? You'll see ads instead.
The reality of humanity is that people operate via incentive. The internet is no different - publishers are incentivised by money. There must be a mechanism to provide that - today's interpretation is increasingly aggressive advertising, which makes noone but the advertisers happy.
Crypto-mining provides an incentive for publishers to invest in their content, knowing they will be duly rewarded, without a middle-man.
Users know that they are providing revenue to publishers simply by the act of viewing content.
It has the potential to be empowering for everyone involved.
However, to riposte as glibly as you did: If you don't feel like compensating a publisher for their content, they may not feel like serving it to you. It's lose-lose for everyone. What do you propose, then?
I'm browser crypto mining.
There's a direct link between the time a user is engaged, and the amount of money a publisher earns.
The relationship is direct between reader and publisher; making quality content becomes important again, there's no adoption friction, and ad networks become a thing of the past.
It's no wonder Google blocked browser mining quick-smart.. it had the potential to bring down the entire house of cards.
I still firmly believe that in-browser crypto mining could solve internet advertising problems fairly for both parties.
1. As a user, you set your preference: no mining - ads will show instead. No ads, there will be some mining.
2. The longer a user stays on a page, ie the more engaging the content is, the more money the publisher earns.
In theory, this would trigger a natural correction for dark publishing patterns: click bait would diminish, articles split over X pages would reduce. True, engaging content would win.
Hitherto all alternatives for remunerating publishers have flopped (an engaged user has no easy way to remunerate aside from pulling out a credit card..) .. so we have been stuck with ads.
I was truly sad to see in-browser crypto mining get banned. For a brief moment, it seemed that pleasing everyone was going to be possible.
Full line boundary on maps: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0...
original NPR article: https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/721551785/a-fishing-line-enci...