Re:WebAssembly: A New Hope
by sp332 on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @01:58PM
(#14971863)
It's not that difficult to use 100% CPU with JS now you know. And Chrome has already taken steps to limiting CPU usage, for power saving reasons. You can implement adblocking similarly to how it's handled now, on a per-domain basis.
Edit: As browser sandboxes get better, running "binary blobs" gets less and less risky. We're a long way from "curl file | bash".
Edit: As browser sandboxes get better, running "binary blobs" gets less and less risky. We're a long way from "curl file | bash".