Before the imminent news that caused a stir on the net about the website The Pirate Bay, where the creators of the site implemented a JavaScript file in the footer section with which they mined through Coinhive making use of computer resources from the use of the web browser, This of course without the authorization or consent of the user.
The case of this method of mining cryptocurrencies through the user only making use of their web browser has not ended, as has also been affected the popular Chrome web browser and specifically by using the SafeBrowse extension.
Tras the recent update of the extension, it included in a hidden way within the code source, connections to the domain of cryptocurrency mining, coin hive.
These cases were reviewed by different affected people, since it was not logical for them that by simply using the browser, the use of it would have an excess of more than 50% of the team's resources and more if they have a state-of-the-art team .
It could be understood the support for the sustenance of the projects, but the use of resources without the consent of the user is unprecedented. That is why the popular ad blocking tool Adblock Plus joins the fight to stop this abuse.
Adblock Plus you allows you to create a filter to block scripts like Coinhive. We just have to enter its configuration and add a new filter that contains the following:
coin-hive.com/lib/coinhive.min.js
Block mining in Chrome
In Chrome we must do secondary click on the Adblock Plus icon in the option of setting, a new tab will open and in the section add your filters, here we will put what you comment above.
Block mining in Firefox
Inside Firefox we write in the address bar bout: addons and then click the Options button next to Adblock Plus.
Being in the configuration of this we look for the Filter Preferences option, in the new window click on the custom filters tab, create a new group and we give in add filter.
With this for the moment we can ensure blocking the script, it is clear that there will be new ways that they will use to exploit this mining method, what I can recommend is to be aware of the resources that the browser consumes.
If you notice something strange when using this or when entering a specific website, it would be best to change your browser, not access that website.
: Or does someone still use ABP ?? !!! Poop, bad, take that out and put uBlock0.
To what came, when I found out about TPB and coin-hive, the first thing I did was go add that domain to the uB0 blacklist, but it turns out that it was already there;)