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Re:Ad campaign runs cryptocurrency miners while unwitting us... by jMyles on Friday January 26, 2018 @04:03PM (#16242875)
> Calling this "script injection" is perhaps misleading, because the JS wouldn't be running in the security context of the page it's in.

I'm probably missing something obvious here, but: how doesn't it run in the security context of the page?

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Re:Ad campaign runs cryptocurrency miners while unwitting us... by chii on Friday January 26, 2018 @04:05PM (#16242893)
presumably ads are served inside an iframe that's different from the website it's displayed on.
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