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Is it just me, or do Firefox's ad campaigns lean slightly on the fearmongering side? When computers run slowly, there are a few likely reasons why -- none of w
by szhu 7y ago
Is it just me, or do Firefox's ad campaigns lean slightly on the fearmongering side?
When computers run slowly, there are a few likely reasons why -- none of which involve cryptomining. When I've fixed my friends' computers for "slowness", I have never found the culprit to be cryptomining -- it's almost always because they have a lot of apps and tabs open. (I've typically solved the problem by showing them how to quit apps and by installing the OneTab and Great Suspender extensions, which, in short, remember the URLs of the open tabs while discarding their page contents.) It's true that sometimes, particular tabs are causing the slowness, but it's almost always just multiple Facebook/YouTube/Google Docs tabs rather than a random site with cryptomining.
On the other hand, the linked blog post makes it seem like cryptomining is by far the main reason why users' computers are slow. Sure, it doesn't directly say that Firefox is the only way to solve slowness, but the strong implication is that slowness is necessarily caused by cryptomining. Since Firefox is the only major browser that blocks cryptomining natively, well, then Firefox becomes the obvious choice.
I'm displeased that Mozilla leaves out any way for the reader to know whether their slowness is caused by cryptomining (bc it probably isn't). It seems weird for an organization that fights for freedoms to use strategies like this.
- theamk 7y agoYou sure about that? One of the problems with cryptominers is they make your machine slow when there are lots of tabs open. Great Suspender works great against cryptomineers.