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Re:I built a screenshot API and some guy was mining cryptocu... by samhunta on Friday April 27, 2018 @01:19PM (#16942483)
Possible deterrents -

1. Use cgroups to limit cpu usage on a process.

2. Block coinhive

3. Implement captchas

4. Cloudflare

5. Adblock

6. API throttling and 1 minute cache per URL

7. Disallow 1 IP from creating more than X accounts at a certain speed per day

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Re:I built a screenshot API and some guy was mining cryptocu... by icebraining on Friday April 27, 2018 @06:21PM (#16944915)
Adblock?
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Re:I built a screenshot API and some guy was mining cryptocu... by bdcravens on Friday April 27, 2018 @07:20PM (#16945195)
If you were using Selenium to generate the screenshots (they weren't, they were using curl) you could add Adblock to the browser being used on your server (Selenium just automates a real browser) which will block Coinhive.
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Re:I built a screenshot API and some guy was mining cryptocu... by icebraining on Saturday April 28, 2018 @02:26AM (#16946348)
Thanks, I didn't know adblock blocked Coinhive.
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