i wanted to see how badly it affected my machine, but when i went to pirateproxy dot cc, it timed out, possibly because a lot of other people want to try it too, or possibly because they've been slashdotted. is that the right address?
PiratebayJavaBitcoinmining
Dylan Garcia
Carson Morgan
i tried: thepiratebay.org
but alas, no cpu usage spike like i was expecting
Ryder Foster
that one timed out for me as well. it's possible the local government censors are interfering.
it's weird, because you'd expect most people to be horrified at the idea of a site stealing their cpu cycles to make money, but a lot of the posters on slashdot seemed okay with it in principle, as long as it was stated up front. pretty much everyone said "it's better than ads".
Brandon Ramirez
it's on /browse/ I believe
Charles Murphy
>thepiratebay.org
although i just did some nslookup poking around and it's not obviously blocked here.
Jaxson Lewis
do you mean a thread on Sup Forums, or a forum called /browse/, or a forum on some other website, or what?
Noah Flores
hwat
Jack Cox
i think he means: thepiratebay.org
like maybe thepiratebay.org
William Bailey
also i checked out the list of proxies on thepiratebay-proxylist, and most of them tried to fuck with my browser, open popups and brought up horrible warning banners via avast. still not convinced they're legit.
Ayden Bell
oh, right.
... that times out, too.
Jayden Barnes
go to thepiratebay dot se
Joshua Bailey
okay, that one IS blocked. this is helpful, because it tells me that while .se is blocked, the others are just timing out because of their shitty connections being overloaded.
Ian Hill
Am i missing something? It all works fine for me.
Jack Flores
Slashdot says tpb wants alternate funding source
yro.slashdot.org
but some find the said javascript no run for them
Lucas Butler
>Australian
Dude use a proxy and visit the same address.
Xavier Scott
ah ok yeah i use noscript. that shits blocked.
Idk what kinda cpu usage we are talking but idk i dont think i mind it. As long as it was public knowledge.
John Gomez
>le anime picture
useless thread
Daniel Lopez
1/10 i replied
Mason Martinez
i was going to use a screenshot from the Pirates porn pic but i think Sup Forums is worksafe.
Luis Mitchell
turns out that according to tpb blog
thepiratebay.org
the CPU spike is not 100% but more like 20-30%
Jaxson Reyes
> uses proxy service
"The requested resource could not be loaded."
Isaac Perez
in that case, it works for me
Blake Clark
Does tpb mine bitcoin using my pc when I visit the site..??
Jacob Phillips
Nothing for me thanks to µmatrix
Wyatt Myers
Not a lot
About 15%
Owen Nelson
yeah thats what i meant. sorry for explaining like a faggot.
Connor Gomez
fuck guys, Australian blocking is by DNS only. Don't use a proxy - just change your DNS to something not run by an Australian ISP (Googlebotnet 8.8.8.8)
Jackson Moore
i wouldn't mind if it did. seriously, if i can let them rape my cpu for the five minutes i spend searching for shit on their site, then i'm okay with that. as the assholes on slashdot said, it's better than pop-up ads.
Evan Brown
thanks for this. i counted myself pretty competent in IT matters.. back in 1983. shit's changed just a little since then.
Zachary Morris
If this becomes a trend with companies (and why wouldn't it) could this be the beginning of users turning off javascript? Could this truly be the end of javascript??
Jeremiah Lopez
Companies won't start doing this. I ran the math. It's not profitable by any stretch of the imagination. I bet thepiratebay will take off their coin-hive miner within the week.