Is it possible that Microsoft is using the remaining power of my machine to power paid Microsoft Azure machines?
How would we go about that, and how does that fit in modern day capitalism (you don’t even own your own machine)?
Is it possible that Microsoft is using the remaining power of my machine to power paid Microsoft Azure machines?
How would we go about that, and how does that fit in modern day capitalism (you don’t even own your own machine)?
Cool, but I can’t help but to think: Unwanted tracking used to be spyware. Unwanted ads used to be adware. Unwanted processor usage is now cryptojacking. What if it is just something that “used to be” as well?
Most of the web is full of tracker. Those tracker you download them on your browser. That browser use your processor to run the shitty tracking code.
This is a stupid example but bear with me: when I load Facebook I use 100% of my cpu. Reddit ~50%. Lemmy ~50%. I have 4 thread on my old i5 . Scrolling FB use 1 whole tread (25% load). Scrolling Reddit 1/2 thread. Lemmy 1/3 thread (but lemmy is not infinite scrolling).
I consider that the three site provide the same information, text/image/video. If a website use twice the resources to do the same job it is as you said “unwanted processor usage”.
It’s the kind of price people are OK to pay. At some point removing the FB apps from an android phone would increase the battery life by 25%. When I heard people complaining about their phone battery life that something i would bring up, none deleted the app. If you make the math it’s absolutely insane millions of peoples (180M users) had to charge their phone more often because of that shitty code.