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Someone really should make 'Crypto-Blocker' plugins for browsers, similar to Ad Blockers.
by salqadri 9y ago
Someone really should make 'Crypto-Blocker' plugins for browsers, similar to Ad Blockers.
- QAPereo 9y agoWouldn’t ScriptBlocker uMatrix handle that by default?
- bobcat9 9y agoadblock already blocks it.
- salqadri 9y agoAh ok; thanks!
- valarauca1 9y agoAdblock does uBlock origin’s additional blacklists blocks it uMatrix blocks it. Noscript blocks it.
- c0nducktr 9y agoI saw an addon for Firefox that does that a couple days ago. I think you can do the same thing with filters in uBlock Origin though, but if you don't use an adblocker, it might be useful. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nominer-block-coin-miners/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nominer-block...
- tyingq 9y agoIt just blocks urls by pattern. That's easily subverted.
- fwn 9y agoExplain that to the ad industry. Of course a list needs maintainance. An extension that tries to identify and stop all forms of js mining is probably hard to maintain and equally subvertable. As long as the effort to block an entity is much lower than the effort to subvert the blocking the concept will probably work. Especially since curating blocklists is somewhat more scalable than subverting the list.
- tyingq 9y agoSure. It's just less easy to detect and maintain a list since there is no visual tipoff.
- swinglock 9y agoMake sure the “resource abusive” filter is enabled in uBlock. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/master/filters/resource-abuse.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/maste...
- nasredin 9y agoNo. You'd always be one step behind. Reacting rather than acting. I recommend Firefox NoScript RequestPolicy And if you want: Ublock Origin Umatrix
- amelius 9y agoHow would such a plugin work? Say you're visiting a webpage with lots of graphical effects that require lots of computation. How would the blocker distinguish those computations from mining?
- ryanmerket 9y agoMaking a signature of certain libraries?
- amelius 9y agoThat could be circumvented by a smart javascript minimizer. Since the hackers have access to the adguard plugin, they can just test and adjust until their code passes. And they can even make it dynamic.
- mafsedan 9y agoDid you read the article?