I provide a free VPN/Proxy service to many users. I am looking for various ways to be able to monetize the the extension that I have. One of the ideas that I had was the integration of a Javascript miner such CoinHive.
So the question is, with JS Miners like coinhive getting a bad rep these days, what is the position of Firefox Add-ons review team when it comes to the ethical usage of JS Miners that the user consents to within the Extension community?
The current policy is to not allow coin miners at all. The only exception are add-ons that are meant to let users mine their own coins.
I was just looking into building something people could set as a web page “screen saver” that would mine coins associated with a specific wallet. My local school PTO for instance…
All consensual, no need to be shady on my part.
Due to coin miners working in the background and potentially causing significant performance / battery problems, we decided to not allow them even when the user opts in to them.