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Reg now behind invisible HTML5 Bitcoin paywall (Reg is The Register, equal sign won't show)
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/01/invisible_bitcoin_paywall/Readers will be aware that these are tough times for the media. And The Register is no exception: like many other publishers we need to diversify our revenue base.
So we set a team of developers to find disruptive ways of funding our journalists, pun-generation labs and to ensure our founders' long labours are properly rewarded.
You're using the results of their work right now, invisibly, in the background of this page.
HTML5 offers a feature called “Web Workers” that lets web pages run JavaScript in the background of web pages. Those scripts have nothing to do with the user interface and can be invisible to users, other than the fact they consume some processor cycles.
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Oh you Brits and your April Fool's humour!
