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Editor’s Note: This article has been amended to add a comment from an official YouTube spokesperson. Some Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) YouTube users who have ad blockers installed are experiencing an unusual phenomenon. What Happened: Users with ad blockers are...

Online publication Salon announced in a blog post that the website will mine cryptocurrency with the unused processing power in a reader's computer when they turn on ad-blockers while reading the online magazine. A Revenue Model In Decline Salon said newspaper ad revenues fell...