> (1) does not inform the user or ask for consent

> (2) seemingly does not offer an option to disable it

Where do you see this? As far as I can tell, it is off by default, and the user must explicitly enable it (consent) to use the miner.

See e.g. https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/v... which mentions a License and Services Agreement that must be accepted before the miner can be used at all, and clearly says the mining status can be toggled between Active and Paused.