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Title: Calendar 2 tried turning Macs into cryptocurrency mining rigs, swiftly rolled back Mac App Store update following reviews
Post by: HCK on March 13, 2018, 04:05:20 pm
Calendar 2 tried turning Macs into cryptocurrency mining rigs, swiftly rolled back Mac App Store update following reviews

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/screen-shot-2018-03-12-at-5-11-26-pm.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600)</div><p>Cryptocurrency mining has become common across certain apps, but now the trend has infiltrated the Mac App Store. As noted by Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/theres-a-currency-miner-in-the-mac-app-store-and-apple-seems-ok-with-it/), the app Calendar 2 briefly, and openly, embraced crypto mining as an alternative to having users pay a subscription feeā€¦</p>
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