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I think it's darkly humorous that I have to install browser plugins to stop sites from mining monero in my browser. It's like websites are those creepy spider t
by nmg 9y ago
I think it's darkly humorous that I have to install browser plugins to stop sites from mining monero in my browser. It's like websites are those creepy spider things in the Matrix, except instead of sticking humans in pods to harvest their biochemical energy, they're just running up our home electricity bills by maxing our CPUs.
- meshy 9y agoWhat plugins do you recommend for this?
- simias 9y agoublock has a list to prevent "resource abuse", I believe it's enabled by default (it blocks things like coinhive & friends).
- etatoby 9y agouBlock Origin with the default choice of lists plus "Fanboy's Annoyance" makes the web 100s of times faster. It's now a default install on every browser of every computer I touch. Even on Firefox on Android, which works really well btw.
- Feniks 9y agoYeah web designers will hate me for this but at least 15% of every site is crap that I block. I'm on a 5Gb data plan for mobile and even on the excellent 4G networks we have here sites are still too slow and unresponsive.
- baybal2 9y ago>maxing our CPUs. And GPU too, I recently saw that I do get frequent crashes on certain pages, it appears that somebody is putting empty ads that do SHAsum in the background with WebGL using vec4 and shaders!
- api 9y agoLet's just move all those 80s cyberpunk novels to the nonfiction section and be done with it.
- HumanDrivenDev 9y agoWhat's the difference in using your electricity to mine crypto-currencies and using it to advertise to you? I don't really see what's dark about it.