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For a while they used crypto miners on their site. Not sure if it’s still in effect, but it caused me to look elsewhere. https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotfo
by SamuelAdams 3y ago
For a while they used crypto miners on their site. Not sure if it’s still in effect, but it caused me to look elsewhere.
https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/the-pirate-bay-used-site-visitors-cpu-to-mine-cryptocurrency-without-asking-permission/ https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/the-pirate-b...
- lucb1e 3y agoSeems a lot less obnoxious than the ads they used to run (don't know what they run nowadays). Bit sad that JS is too limited to be a miner that can't be implemented more efficiently in something like X86 (randomX) or an ASIC (BTC), I imagine it would have caught on otherwise.
- IshKebab 3y agoYou could use WASM and WebGPU now so maybe it will make a resurgence.