First-order effects

• Sites running in-browser miners lose that revenue stream for Adblock Plus's user base on all four platforms, while readers get their CPU and battery back without switching browsers.
• Filter-list maintainers gain veto power over a new class of page behavior, extending Adblock Plus's authority beyond ads into how sites may use visitor hardware.

Second-order effects

• Publishers squeezed by ad-blocking respond by making mining explicit and optional — months later, Salon began testing Monero mining as an opt-in alternative to ads for ad-block users, the consent-based version of what this filter bans.
• Rival blockers face pressure to match the capability, turning filter updates into a feature race over non-ad abuses rather than just ad rules — a path Adblock Plus itself continued down when it added blocking of social media button tracking.

Third-order effects

• As filters govern more than advertising, the trust perimeter shifts to list providers — a risk realized when researchers showed Adblock, Adblock Plus and uBlock filter lists could have let their providers run arbitrary code inside pages ([[a:940638]]).
• If the pattern holds, browser extensions harden into a de facto policy layer deciding what web content may do with client hardware, operating between sites and users outside any formal regulatory framework.