Web Mining: is that bad?

Is web mining such a big problem for the user or is just the ad platforms fear about losing their power?
There has been a lot of noise around Monero and Coinhive lately, or web mining in general, and don’t quite agree with most of what I’m hearing. It all started with The Pirate Bay adding a web mining script to their site, so whenever you’d visit them, your CPU would be used to mine some Monero for them. That was made without any notice to the user, just “stealing” their power.

the minergate mining pool became a scam no longer pays precaution

Twitter, the bad and the ugly (aka. where IT Security failed)

Database Design Bad Practices

Human and bot web traffic share 2022

Web Mining: is that bad?

Free Is Bad: How The Free Web Hurt Privacy, Truth and Democracy

Neural Networks and Data Mining Folie 1 Artificial Neural Networks

Make a stand. I took me 3 minutes to contact both my senators. : r

Web Scraping vs Data Mining

1st Mining Rig

Web mining and social media mining