Re:New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perf...
by duskwuff on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:36AM
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> I guess slow/fast is subjective. It didn't seem like enough time passed for a legitimate ecosystem to develop.
Coinhive was live for about two years (2017 - 2019), and it basically ran the whole course from exciting new tech to widely abused to dead over that time.
> The hacked site boogieman felt overblown...
Troy Hunt acquired several of the Coinhive domains in 2021 -- two years after the service shut down -- and it was still getting hundreds of thousands of requests a day, mostly from compromised web sites and/or infected routers. It was a serious problem, albeit one which mostly affected smaller and poorly maintained web sites.
Coinhive was live for about two years (2017 - 2019), and it basically ran the whole course from exciting new tech to widely abused to dead over that time.
> The hacked site boogieman felt overblown...
Troy Hunt acquired several of the Coinhive domains in 2021 -- two years after the service shut down -- and it was still getting hundreds of thousands of requests a day, mostly from compromised web sites and/or infected routers. It was a serious problem, albeit one which mostly affected smaller and poorly maintained web sites.
https://www.troyhunt.com/i-now-own-the-coinhive-domain-heres...