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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?
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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?
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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.

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