Oh, wow. For real?
Just discovered an on-page advert was mining bitcoin in my browser. Remember kids: always use an adblocker
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Yeah, probably the least efficient way to mine bitcoin, wonder if the ROI on the adspace is even worth it. Clocked up 40MB of downloads
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That is, until someone writes a Bitcoin miner in Minecraft using redstone.
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I laugh now, but it's only a matter of time before someone's doing 100seconds/hash on public MC servers
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Greets from adblock researchers o/ How did you found that out?
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Noticed a site had downloaded 40MB+ and maxed CPU, checked sources and discovered it was a Bitcoin add in iframe, looked at JS it used
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The ad would normally be blocked by almost any adblocker on the market, I just had it switched off on this PC.
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Thank you for this info#
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You're welcome!
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The best adblocker IMHO, I use it on everything except the browser where I need to be able to see/test ads.
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I sometimes have to disable tho cos sites do weird pulls from other domains that get blocked. Frustrating.
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yeah, i've run into this but thankfully it's pretty rare and I just turn off tracking for that one site
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I'm impressed by the design but confused by its relative inefficiency....
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It was also an ad for a btc exchange/wallet thing, so maybe the mining was just to recoup some cost?
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To clarify- (I'd love to see this) - this was not exploitation to install malware which mined but only ran while the browser stayed open?
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Yep, the latter. Not exploitation and malware delivery which I've seen done through ads before.
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They needed to get that running on some fight streams on Sunday....
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