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Ask HN: Are tons of websites mining crypto on visitors PCs now?
I've noticed during the past few days / week, that when I visit several sites, my Disk (Task Manager on Windows) shoots up to just under 100%, and stays there until I close Chrome and "end task" for Chrome on Task Manager. (ie not enough to just close Chrome). After that, disk returns to 0 or close to, browsing is normal, until I visit some site (several) and I hear my computer ramping up again).
Any idea what's going on? I suspected sites might be using visitors machines to mine, because that's popped up on discussions a few times lately.
- fosco 9y agoDo they all use javascript? If they do try using no-script and see if you get same result?
- saluki 9y agoy, there have been some WordPress plugins adding mining javascript to sites recently.
- stevekemp 9y agoIt seems like you've read of a trend, and are just guessing. It would be more productive to investigate the source of sites that cause this behaviour than asking random strangers whether a number of random (unidentified) websites are mining. We can't guess, we don't know. Nobody knows how widespread this is - but I suspect not very widespread at all.