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0 pointsnmg8y ago0 comments

I think it's darkly humorous that I have to install browser plugins to stop sites from mining monero in my browser. It's like websites are those creepy spider things in the Matrix, except instead of sticking humans in pods to harvest their biochemical energy, they're just running up our home electricity bills by maxing our CPUs.

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baybal28y ago

>maxing our CPUs.

And GPU too,

I recently saw that I do get frequent crashes on certain pages, it appears that somebody is putting empty ads that do SHAsum in the background with WebGL using vec4 and shaders!

api8y ago

Let's just move all those 80s cyberpunk novels to the nonfiction section and be done with it.

Feniks8y ago

Yeah web designers will hate me for this but at least 15% of every site is crap that I block.

I'm on a 5Gb data plan for mobile and even on the excellent 4G networks we have here sites are still too slow and unresponsive.

HumanDrivenDev8y ago

What's the difference in using your electricity to mine crypto-currencies and using it to advertise to you?

I don't really see what's dark about it.

meshy8y ago

What plugins do you recommend for this?

etatoby8y ago

uBlock Origin with the default choice of lists plus "Fanboy's Annoyance" makes the web 100s of times faster.

It's now a default install on every browser of every computer I touch. Even on Firefox on Android, which works really well btw.

simias8y ago

ublock has a list to prevent "resource abuse", I believe it's enabled by default (it blocks things like coinhive & friends).

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