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This, right here, is blatant theft, and unauthorized utilization of consumer resources. I don't care if there is a clause in there about "You consent to blahblahblah."

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I think there's a misunderstanding because the original thread leaves one thinking that Norton is surreptitiously installing cryptominer malware on their customer's machines (not a big fan of how that was communicated.) In reality, this is an optional cryptomining application that you can choose to run (if you are willing to let Norton keep a 15% cut.)

https://community.norton.com/en/blogs/product-service-announ...

Nobody competent with computers is going to be using Norton. It'll show up on gram and gramps home pcs, and they'll have been running it for a year before they proudly mention: "I've been mining NortonCoin to save money on my anti-virus subscription!" Or whatever bullshit Norton sales gremlins have fed them.

Their demographic is people who don't know better, and this whole thing reeks of illegal consumer exploitation.

A lot of people's grandparents are going to earn $10 of "free money" with this utility and have no idea that it cost them $200 of electricity. Meanwhile Norton's laughing all the way to the bank with their 15% off the top.

(disclaimer: numbers totally made up, but I'm sure the average Norton user's computer isn't mining profitably)

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