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Re:Adguard found 220 sites that launch mining when a user op... by salqadri on Friday October 13, 2017 @10:06PM (#15470292)
Someone really should make 'Crypto-Blocker' plugins for browsers, similar to Ad Blockers.
Re:Adguard found 220 sites that launch mining when a user op... by swinglock on Saturday October 14, 2017 @01:54AM (#15470986)
Make sure the “resource abusive” filter is enabled in uBlock.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/maste...

Re:Adguard found 220 sites that launch mining when a user op... by nasredin on Saturday October 14, 2017 @02:48PM (#15473568)
No.

You'd always be one step behind. Reacting rather than acting.

I recommend

Firefox

NoScript

RequestPolicy

And if you want:

Ublock Origin

Umatrix

Re:Adguard found 220 sites that launch mining when a user op... by valarauca1 on Friday October 13, 2017 @10:35PM (#15470375)
Adblock does

uBlock origin’s additional blacklists blocks it

uMatrix blocks it.

Noscript blocks it.

Re:Adguard found 220 sites that launch mining when a user op... by c0nducktr on Friday October 13, 2017 @10:52PM (#15470419)
I saw an addon for Firefox that does that a couple days ago. I think you can do the same thing with filters in uBlock Origin though, but if you don't use an adblocker, it might be useful.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nominer-block...

Re:Adguard found 220 sites that launch mining when a user op... by tyingq on Friday October 13, 2017 @11:31PM (#15470553)
It just blocks urls by pattern. That's easily subverted.
Re:Adguard found 220 sites that launch mining when a user op... by fwn on Saturday October 14, 2017 @04:14AM (#15471274)
Explain that to the ad industry. Of course a list needs maintainance.

An extension that tries to identify and stop all forms of js mining is probably hard to maintain and equally subvertable.

As long as the effort to block an entity is much lower than the effort to subvert the blocking the concept will probably work.

Especially since curating blocklists is somewhat more scalable than subverting the list.

Re:Adguard found 220 sites that launch mining when a user op... by tyingq on Saturday October 14, 2017 @09:28AM (#15472078)
Sure. It's just less easy to detect and maintain a list since there is no visual tipoff.
Re:Adguard found 220 sites that launch mining when a user op... by amelius on Saturday October 14, 2017 @09:22AM (#15472047)
How would such a plugin work? Say you're visiting a webpage with lots of graphical effects that require lots of computation. How would the blocker distinguish those computations from mining?
Re:Adguard found 220 sites that launch mining when a user op... by ryanmerket on Saturday October 14, 2017 @11:05AM (#15472459)
Making a signature of certain libraries?
Re:Adguard found 220 sites that launch mining when a user op... by amelius on Saturday October 14, 2017 @12:10PM (#15472768)
That could be circumvented by a smart javascript minimizer.

Since the hackers have access to the adguard plugin, they can just test and adjust until their code passes.

And they can even make it dynamic.

Re:Adguard found 220 sites that launch mining when a user op... by bobcat9 on Friday October 13, 2017 @10:09PM (#15470303)
adblock already blocks it.
Re:Adguard found 220 sites that launch mining when a user op... by salqadri on Friday October 13, 2017 @10:11PM (#15470308)
Ah ok; thanks!
Re:Adguard found 220 sites that launch mining when a user op... by QAPereo on Friday October 13, 2017 @10:07PM (#15470297)
Wouldn’t ScriptBlocker uMatrix handle that by default?