Ah, so I'm not the only one. I came here to see if I had gotten some malware, or if this was done by the web masters at writing.com. It's a few lines of in-line script at the top of the main table for interactive chapters. That's very cheeky.
Advertising is passive, but where in the terms of service does it say it can use our computers processing power to mine bitcoins?
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