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Re:Show HN: No Coin – A browser extension to block coin miners by amelius on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:53AM (#15274538)
I think browsers and OSes need to improve to make mining in the background possible such that the UX is not hampered in any way. Right now, with Javascript in the same thread as the UI, that seems not really possible.
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Re:Show HN: No Coin – A browser extension to block coin miners by ComputerGuru on Monday September 18, 2017 @11:25AM (#15276721)
They already have. It’s called using a web worker.
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Re:Show HN: No Coin – A browser extension to block coin miners by amelius on Monday September 18, 2017 @12:27PM (#15277257)
Still, such threads get the same priority as other threads, instead of running in pure idle time.
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