ThePirateBay.org is making users mine Bitcoins

Re:ThePirateBay.org is making users mine Bitcoins by ddmma on Saturday September 16, 2017 @02:02AM (#15263152)

What if google or facebook would have this on their embed code?!

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Re:ThePirateBay.org is making users mine Bitcoins by kungito on Saturday September 16, 2017 @02:41AM (#15263286)

Seeing as how slow Facebook app is, they are probably mining both Bitcoin and Ethereum

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Re:ThePirateBay.org is making users mine Bitcoins by IncRnd on Saturday September 16, 2017 @02:26AM (#15263232)

They'd mine a few tons more by using native miners on their own servers instead of javascript on all the clients.

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Re:ThePirateBay.org is making users mine Bitcoins by adrianN on Saturday September 16, 2017 @02:33AM (#15263260)

Then they'd have to pay for the electricity.

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Re:ThePirateBay.org is making users mine Bitcoins by majewsky on Saturday September 16, 2017 @11:12AM (#15264980)

I can still imagine it. The team that mines Bitcoins to pay for their social event would probably not be part of the division that pays the electricity bills.

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Re:ThePirateBay.org is making users mine Bitcoins by jacquesm on Saturday September 16, 2017 @02:27AM (#15263233)

They probably don't, but how can you be sure without auditing each and every js embed that you download?

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Re:ThePirateBay.org is making users mine Bitcoins by ddmma on Saturday September 16, 2017 @02:44AM (#15263293)

with the state of js these days... everything is possible

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