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With webtorrent clients you might just get a miner in your codebase: https://github.com/DiegoRBaquero/BTorrent/issues/71#issuecomment-570055039 https://github.

• gpm 7y ago
  A "miner" wastes a bit of my cpu while I have the website open, frankly, who gives a crap? If I do give a crap I'll notice and close the webpage. I'm much more concerned about "real" viruses like ransomware that the browser does successfully protect against.
  • bavell 7y ago
    Lots of people give a crap, myself included. Why would I run a resource hungry browser process with a huge attack surface and support for dozens of protocols, plugins, etc for the entire length of the transfer just to download some files? For a dedicated torrent client to infect your PC with a "real" virus, you'd need to download the torrent and execute the file yourself (PEBCAK). I trust my own judgement much more than some random webpage.
    • gpm 7y ago
      Or the torrent client could be malicious. Browser security is a non issue because you're trusting it anyways. If you consider loosing some CPU cycles to be equivalent to having a rootkit installed I don't know what to tell you, see a psychiatrist?