Salon is mining cryptocurrency via the web browser of any reader who refuses to turn off their adblocker. Basically, Salon will hijack your computer if you block their ads and will hand this over to hackers who hijack computers to ‘create cryptocoins’ which is basically doubling down on this criminal activity. They could simply make their site private. It would help a great deal since their editorial positions are insane, dangerous or stupid. It often is obscene and pushes for forcing children to have sex with older adults, for example.