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Cryptominer scripts can just as easily be blocked. Unfortunately this isn't true- it's pretty easy to proxy the request to coinhive through the web server of t
by seveibar 9y ago
Cryptominer scripts can just as easily be blocked.
Unfortunately this isn't true- it's pretty easy to proxy the request to coinhive through the web server of the main site. e.g. https://github.com/cazala/coin-hive-proxy https://github.com/cazala/coin-hive-proxy
Site owners have incentive to run this proxy so they're not marked as a mining site OR to circumvent the 30% fee that coinhive collects. I don't think it will be possible to block mining in the future without blocking javascript completely.
- aequitas 9y agoThat's true, but cryptominers will have a distinctive pattern when running. Ie: consuming a lot of cpu for a lot of time. So with some more work a blocker for this can emerge and kill obfuscated miners. Since miners really need to run to generate revenue while ads are sold on per view of click basis, incentive to play nice and be transparent with the user might be higher?
- drcharris 9y agoNot sure if any of the current ad blockers do this, but perhaps script-blocking by hashing the contents of the script could get around this? Another lap of the arms-race, I guess...