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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...

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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.
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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.

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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.
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