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If a stranger calls you up and tells you to go run around the block ten times at a full sprint, and you do it, and collapse with heat stroke ... it's not the stranger's fault.

Though they can still be an asshat, like Amazon is when they play every product video at full volume.

True, but accessing publically available pages on a company or government website can lead to criminal prosecution for unauthorized access. If Bloomberg snatches my keys and goes for a joyride, that's illegal. If they snatch my CPU and mine bitcoin...

I figure it could be illegal depending on the situation since as far as I know, it's illegal to have bitcoin mining js modules that load into users browsers.

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