I completely agree with your view on torrent sites.
About the matter regarding in browser mining, yes there are a lot of things that can be done with this new mining technology. I do not mind giving away 30% of my PC's computing power to get certain benefits on a site. It is always welcome than those crappy advertisements anyways. But the website should always notify their users about this, which TPB didn't in this case.
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