Re:Opera now protects you from cryptojacking attacks
by fpoling on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @04:51PM
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Well, typically a page does not run heavy calculations for minutes without any input/output. The ad blocker can use that.
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Re:Opera now protects you from cryptojacking attacks
by kodablah on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @06:25PM
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I won't run a closed source ad blocker. Whatever my hypothetical nefarious self sees is the limit which triggers heavy-calc check, I'll just split my insns across requestAnimationFrame/setTimeout just beneath it. The cat-and-mouse game of ad blockers really should be no problem for the adversary (the ad companies) if they just put some thought and engineering into it.