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Already a thing, it's just been CPU based and now can be GPU based. Firefox (and probably other browsers) have systems to attempt to block them. https://blog.mo

Already a thing, it's just been CPU based and now can be GPU based. Firefox (and probably other browsers) have systems to attempt to block them. https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/04/09/protections-against-fingerprinting-and-cryptocurrency-mining-available-in-firefox-nightly-and-beta/ https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/04/09/protectio... The people sneaking this shit into webpages don't care if it burns $1 of electricity and destroys your battery to generate $0.0000001 of Monero because all of those costs are paid by someone else.

prox 5y ago
Is there a toggle extension like I have for JS?
- autoexec 5y ago
  I'm keeping an eye out too. I've seen a few vulnerabilities mentioned already for this tech. This site (https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/04/experimental-webgpu-in-firefox/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/04/experimental-webgpu-in-fir...) suggests that setting the options “dom.webgpu.enabled = true” and “gfx.webrender.all = true” to false (where needed) could prevent it from running. I'm also guessing it's use will depend on javascript which I block by default.