Crypto Miners being implemented on websites

So, is this the future we chose? Or is it the one that the ThePirateBay paved for us?

torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-website-runs-a-cryptocurrency-miner-170916/

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Proofs that Iridium (previously known as the extension YouTube Plus) is using a crypto miner.

github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium/wiki/Features#miner_threads

arms race resulting in web workers being default disabled within a month

I thought a while ago that these would be implemented in webassembly eventually but didnt expect it to happen so soon.

Can’t you just block it with custom JavaScript?

Yeah and the website can also make it so that if certain JS code isn't run, it won't show you the contents

If this means a future without ads, I can live with a tiny amount of my processor power being used up

there's no such thing as a future without ads, it'll just be more shit piled on top of ads

>a website can now make sure you close the window
truly this is the future

This will fuck so many websites in the ass, but sadly it's a necessary evil to cleanse this fucking cancer.

Sadly, jews will be jews. Shortly after they will have the idea "But what if we run a cryptominer AND ads", and thusly you your computer will be permanently locked at 100% usage; 10% from the cryptominer, and 90% from the ad refresh script.

That is great idea!
>Be webdev freelancer
>Mine buttcoins with all websites you sell
>Idiots thinks their kampooter is old
>Upgrades with a better GPU
>More buttcoins
I'll be rich!

pic related is bad so how is this not bad?

it's like you want your kek feed to you for free

Damn, the internet is getting worse.

Big companies switch to "muh subscription" instead of buy once model because they never have enough money

Open source software use "muh coin mining" lowering the lifespan of my gpu.

>it's like you want your kek feed to you for free
I don't understand what you're saying. Are you implying that website or any "free" software should be able to run crypto currency miners on your computer in exchange for offering a "free" service?
Because a lot of people will object to this.

a smart user could port coinhive to webgl shaders and make a fortune

r8 my filters

coin-hive.com
coinhive.min.js|
coinhive.js|

fuckin get a load of this goy
we will NEVER let that happen, do you fucking hear me, goyim?

What if the website or extension has a script that must run for you to have access to their content?

>running this inefficient wasteful javascript garbage instead of contributing to research projects like folding@home, rosetta@home or seti@home

ISHYDDT

> local, obfuscated javascript miner, spawns a zombie thread so it's always on

We're not you retard. We talking about the future ramifications, where more developers will opt to use such miners in their software or websites, to generate revenue with or without informing you.

Dumb animeposter

Anyone got that picture of the guy with the bad hair and bad suit buying a few dozen graphics cards?

you can't spawn a thread without web workers, so at least they're limited to heavily obfuscated code degrading their site by running slowly on the UI thread

don't worry, webgl and webassembly are coming to the rescue

Just install uBlock Origin and uBlock Origin Extra.

enjoy getting left in the dust when websites wont even load for you grandpa

It's literally a script you can block.

Web 1.0 here. We've been waiting for you.

>Gelbooru starts doing this
>Tfw 50 tabs of porn and miners

oh god

Said thing is that the developer initially did implement this cryptominer without notifying the user base.

I was experiencing these weird spikes in CPU usage while using Firefox. It was odd because when I looked at my CPU usage, it was only 4 cores being maxed while the other 4 were barely being used. I narrowed it down and it seemed like the culprit was youtube. But I never thought that it was actually because an extension was running a cryptominer every time I had youtube open.

It's not too bad if it's a fair exchange. Like the user is being asked to opt-in or something to contributing to domain hosting costs by contributing processing power.
It's when it's done sneakily in the background, is when it's awful. Not all computers are built for maximum sustained output, and besides, it'll kill anything else you're doing.

It's awful all the way around. Stop defending this pile of shit.

The nordbot on pol posts links to unvis.it which uses a crypto miner.

>Said thing is that the developer initially did implement this cryptominer without notifying the user base.
He hasn't

Meh. This is the future we chose.

It costs cash to run these services, maintain them, put people in chairs creating content. We used to have games that were finished for 60$ once, but people opted for the cheaper ones. Apps used to cost more then 99c before users decided not to pay at all. Subscriptions work because you depend on a fucking service.

I we demand free access then someone has to foot the bill. Either ourselves as a community or some corp with Ads. If this is just an alternative to ads right on.

Browsers like Brave pioneer a great idea, microtransaction exchanges with a site in exchange for no ads. That's fucking sustainable.

Honestly, if I had to choose between a miner (assuming it behaved and didn't drain all resources to shit) and literal spyware (ads) then I'd rather the miner. But both are shit though and need to die in a fire.

Also eternally fucked in the court.

I wonder which one can generate more income. My bet is on the ads.

>the swapped "No", and "OK" options.
D E V I L I S H

github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium/issues/189

>I intend to add a coin miner together with the extension for a trial run to see if it is even worth it. Although I might change my mind about this later, initially this will be enabled by default because I assume that the current user base is too small to spare the "extra hand" in order to achieve a reliable projection of this trial.

I swear that he must have done this because I was getting 100% usage spikes on 4 cores (the default number of cores) while only browsing with 1 youtube tab open for the past week.

I love arms races. They usually create a lot of cool tech. Bring it on.

How did we see this coming from so far away and still let it happen?

All it took was one JS module and the internet is doomed. The bright side is, if mine-blockers become mainstream with normies, it could take down the current ad model with it since hopefully any software that blocks miners will also block ads.

Interesting that there's finally a way to monetize chrome extensions and it had to be like this.

Ads are more profitable, I think a miner has to running for one hour to make up one ad view at current Monero rate.

Can you tl;dr on the Brave microtransaction model? How is it sustainable and how will Brave see adoption with mainstream normies?

I don't think most annons here realize that this is a browser we're talking about here, not a webpage. They've literally integrated a bitcoin miner into a privacy based browser.

I can see why they need the cash though. They're still on Chrome 58

are you just lying for fun?

Why are you angry? This is the future you chose.

I'm not against this at all, I'd much rather contribute some CPU time to projects I actually want to support, instead of raping my privacy

No way will it be "either or". There are enough rapists out there to fill all the holes.

We are watching capatalism die and it's coming up with some crazy ideas in a desperate attempt to stay around.

>didn't look at the first reply
github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium/wiki/Features#miner_threads
it's some shit youtube extension

inst it severely inefficient? crypto mining via javascript?

>expend vast amounts of power to find very specific but ultimately insignificant numbers
>degrade carefully refined silicon wafers made in high-tech assembly lines
>consuming gallons of limited and polluting fossil fuels in the process
>all so that a site can prove that it is popular enough to deserve bandwidth/servers

lol

Well I block ads anyway, so I don't see the problem.

I think this is the best solution.

But what does this mean for the price of Monero? Will it decrease due to the increase of supply, or increase in value due to interest in it?

You allow it but block the mining domain.

It's not a big deal, Google/Mozilla will nip that shit in the bud ASAP should it ever be common

Wew, thought it was the Chromium fork for a second there

>have 300 tabs open
>computer freezes
>room 20 degrees hotter

>We used to have games that were finished for 60$ once
I thought games still $60? I havent really bought any video games since I was in high school

I close the tab and never visit the site again. If it's for a job, I spin up a VM with as little CPU resources assigned as possible.

>visit website
>my new MacBook Pro(tm) Retina with 15 inches looks at me funny
>estimated battery life drops from 18 hours to 30 minutes
>feel some mild pain in my lap
>CPU reached 120°C and made me impotent (could've saved the 8 grand on my vasectomy)
>my tight jeans now have a burn hole in them
>admire Apple because even at full load the fans didn't spin and made the whole experience nice and quiet

the new pros have fans that spin with annoying high freq when under heavy burden I've read. no touchbar models have only one and touchbar models have two fans

Only console games, even they have DLC AIDS now. PC games are being released either as a service or freemium thanks to le indie game devs undercutting actual games.

buht muh micro transactions
but muh competitive moba style faggotry
there's no escape, everything is ruined by greedy cocksuckers.

raw.githubusercontent.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/master/filters/resource-abuse.txt

>yes button is blue
>no button is black
ooo shiny color, i click blue
an insult to my intelligence desu

inb4 randomized domains

If it's:
>Opt in
>Open source
>Disclosed to the user
>Allows the user to throttle the miner to an appropriate level
If you meet those requirements, JavaScript mining is safer and less malicious than conventional advertising.

>Javascriptcoin ICO soon goyim, i mean investors

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>been cpu mining for months

>only managed to get 0.02

>minimum cash-out is 5

back to nicehash i guess

There's multiple problems with this.
Mostly for the website owners.
Assuming we're mining similarly to bitcoin we can just modify the webminer to target our own wallet instead of the owner wallet.
It'll be trivial to block regardless because the checks have to happen locally for performance reasons.
The return is too small compared to ads.
wasm doesn't seem sufficient yet. And cuda/opencl support for web browsers is lacking.

Maybe far in the future we'd do this. But it'd likely be like a service separate from all that and we have automatic micropayments for sites (or equivalent) instead.
God, every sentence I type i keep thinking of stupid fucking answers you can come up with. You've really lost all respect with me Sup Forums.

You are incorrect. But it will happen.

Mining it yourself is stupid. You need multiple people mining - which is why this script is so great.

Normal ads get blocked by a significant portion of the visitors that have an adblocker installed, whereas those web miners aren't blocked by default yet and most people have no idea how to do it manually. It's an opportunity.

Completely misunderstood pool mining and my post.

>>github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium/wiki/Features#miner_threads
>github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium/wiki/Features#miner_threads
>github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium/issues/189

this ParticleCore faggot is a piece of shit. we need to fork this extension and mark his one as malware on Tampermonkey and other extensions.

tampermonkey itself is malware dumbass

It's funny seeing him damage control so hard by deleting anything that could be taken negative about it or the situation as a whole.

>It's funny seeing him damage control so hard by deleting anything that could be taken negative about it or the situation as a whole.
He bans people too.

>install two plugins
>they both have cryptocurrency miners in them

I know that, he told people that wanted to "circlejerk" to go to reddit and do it then creates another issue with one of the things asking for people to talk about positive aspects of it.

I'm pretty ok with it so long as it doesn't take all my resources/stops once I leave the page.

web miner block addon when?

what is noscript or blocking the domain in ublock

>not using uMatrix and blocking all third-party domains by default

>Websites can now take money directly from your wallet by taking over your electrons.

The big websites MAY try to pull shit like this, but soon everybody and their grandmothers, "free" porn tubes, streaming services, obscure shady websites will use your machine behind your back.

Just imagine the kind of money running the mining script on Pornhub would generate if they ran it on/off every couple of seconds so niggas with their hands on their dicks won't notice.

Anyone else think it's kinda fucked up we're expending energy and polluting the world to find some numbers which we arbitrarily give value to?

Tho I guess it's less harmful than GOLD mining.

baka humans

But you still have to mine gold to make electronics user, those that mining drives the demand and price of up, not mention ASICs.

It's the same as saying electric cars are less harmful.

yes cryptocurrencies are stupid and will never be relevant.

>website miners become a big thing
>someone makes an addon that blocks them
>all is well in the world

Chill your tits lads

>want something without ads that you can have for free
>"it's using up my CPU :'^( "
GNU-males are something else

>DRM is normalized for JS
>Blocking the big black box makes a website refuse to load
>All is bad in the world
Sorry

>webpage is DRM'd
>they run a miner on it
>????
>profit

entire webpage is now drm'd

>normies can't figure out why the chrome is slow so they buy a new PC
>more used, modern hardware for Sup Forums
>more shekels for OEMs
oi vey

all that means is more people will start having to use a whitelist JS based policy instead of a blacklist JS based one

faggots are massively underestimating the amount of grandmas, tech illiterate dads, moms, stacies and dumb normie fucks.

If everyone was using an ad blocker the ads would be dead by now you dumb fucks, it's gonna be the same with the miners, now it's just coinhive, soon shit'll spread like a virus.