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Coming soon: JavaScript embeds on bloated websites that mine cryptocurrency on viewers' WebGPUs. Accidentally leave a browser tab open and it burns $5 of your
by dheera 6mo ago
Coming soon: JavaScript embeds on bloated websites that mine cryptocurrency on viewers' WebGPUs.
Accidentally leave a browser tab open and it burns $5 of your electricity overnight to make $2 for the owner of the website.
- drakythe 6mo agoThat's not coming soon, that is a thing that was happening on compromised servers years ago (and probably still, but to a lesser extent given the decline in popularity of meme coin launches)
- RobotToaster 6mo agoAlready been done, albeit without the webgpu part. I think some browsers already block crypto miners It's a shame in a way, it also blocked the pseudo-captchas that used mining to limit spam.
- fg137 6mo agoA few years ago, if you visit a site, your laptop grinds to a halt and the fan starts spinning like crazy, you know there is crypto mining happening on the site. (btw that was a really good showcase for WebAssembly. Too bad it's used for illegitimate purposes)
- dheera 6mo agoPretty much all sites do that to my laptop these days if I don't enable uBlock Origin. Google Meet consumes 25% of each of 16 hypercores, ffs. On a 7840u. Laptop becomes a toaster.
- fg137 6mo agoThinkPad? This probably doesn't help, but I noticed that my everyday computer experience got much better after switching to an M4 Mac. The only time I heard fan was when I was running ffmpeg. Unfortunately that appears to be the solution that works.
- dheera 6mo agoFramework laptop running Ubuntu