Crypto Currency Miners

[worgeordie]

I had heard they are becoming more prevalent,on websites you visit,

basically someone is loading a script on to your browser and using

it to mine cryptocurrency at your expense, (is that correct).

 

So I added the app Anti Miner to my Chrome browser,and low and

behold it started blocking them, on a streaming movie site,on one

movie it blocked 6 scripts,1 or 2 on some others,dont know how

serious a problem this is,but someone is making money at my expense.

regards worgeordie

[RichCor]

Interesting.  I know a few years back a couple of software apps were caught-out bundling mining software that installed to run without consent of the user. 

 

So browser scripts seems to be the natural next step.

 

Showtime Websites Used to Mine Monero, Unclear If Hack or an Experiment

bleepingcomputer.com  |  By Catalin Cimpanu  |  September 25, 2017

Two Showtime domains are currently loading and running Coinhive, a JavaScript library that mines Monero using the CPU resources of users visiting Showtime's websites.

 

Cryptocurrency web mining: In union there is profit
ESET WeLiveSecurity.com  |  BY MATTHIEU FAOU  |  POSTED 14 SEP 2017

In the last months, we stumbled upon some JavaScript files apparently used to mine cryptocurrencies directly within the browser.

 

 

Ugh,

[Tommy2cents]

That man is the richest who's pleasures are the cheapest . . . .

[Oxx]

What's the problem? Websites cost money to run.  Having a program running unobtrusively in the background whilst you're visiting the specific site is, in my opinion, preferable to having advertisements.

 

The only reason I haven't implemented it for any of my sites is that Google has suggested it may downgrade the ranking of sites that do this.

[worgeordie]

 

On 24/11/2017 at 8:33 AM, Oxx said:

What's the problem? Websites cost money to run.  Having a program running unobtrusively in the background whilst you're visiting the specific site is, in my opinion,  preferable to having advertisements.

 

The only reason I haven't implemented it for any of my sites is that Google has suggested it may downgrade the ranking of sites that do this.

" preferable to having advertisements.",now it looks like we are going to have both,

adverts we can see on the page,but miners working away without you knowing,is

not acceptable to me,maybe if they were upfront about.

regards worgeordie

[Oxx]

50 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

 

" preferable to having advertisements.",now it looks like we are going to have both,

adverts we can see on the page,but miners working away without you knowing,is

not acceptable to me,maybe if they were upfront about.

regards worgeordie

 

(1) The provider of the most common code does recommend that you provide an opt-out option on your website.

 

(2) Advertisements steal the bandwidth you pay for.  Miners steal your CPU.  Really don't see a difference, personally.