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Re:WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers by nmg on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @06:54AM (#15694275)
I think it's darkly humorous that I have to install browser plugins to stop sites from mining monero in my browser. It's like websites are those creepy spider things in the Matrix, except instead of sticking humans in pods to harvest their biochemical energy, they're just running up our home electricity bills by maxing our CPUs.
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Re:WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers by baybal2 on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @09:54AM (#15695476)
>maxing our CPUs.

And GPU too,

I recently saw that I do get frequent crashes on certain pages, it appears that somebody is putting empty ads that do SHAsum in the background with WebGL using vec4 and shaders!

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Re:WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers by api on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @10:47AM (#15695992)
Let's just move all those 80s cyberpunk novels to the nonfiction section and be done with it.
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Re:WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers by Feniks on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @09:08AM (#15695044)
Yeah web designers will hate me for this but at least 15% of every site is crap that I block.

I'm on a 5Gb data plan for mobile and even on the excellent 4G networks we have here sites are still too slow and unresponsive.

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Re:WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers by HumanDrivenDev on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @03:55PM (#15699013)
What's the difference in using your electricity to mine crypto-currencies and using it to advertise to you?

I don't really see what's dark about it.

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Re:WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers by meshy on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @06:59AM (#15694299)
What plugins do you recommend for this?
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Re:WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers by etatoby on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @08:00AM (#15694594)
uBlock Origin with the default choice of lists plus "Fanboy's Annoyance" makes the web 100s of times faster.

It's now a default install on every browser of every computer I touch. Even on Firefox on Android, which works really well btw.

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Re:WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers by simias on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @07:18AM (#15694395)
ublock has a list to prevent "resource abuse", I believe it's enabled by default (it blocks things like coinhive & friends).
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