WARNING: Ads on YouTube can use miners on your browser

8 pointsGRiMe2D8y ago1 comments

There are some incidents that ads on youtube.com can spawn miners on your browser.

When watching a video, when your progress bar touches "yellow area", CPU usage can jump up to 100%.

Source (in russian): https://pikabu.ru/story/ostorozhnee_s_youtube_okh_uzh_yetot_mayning_5631802

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Is there a browser addon or another tool that can identify miner webpages?

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8 pointsGRiMe2D8y ago1 comments

There are some incidents that ads on youtube.com can spawn miners on your browser.

When watching a video, when your progress bar touches "yellow area", CPU usage can jump up to 100%.

Source (in russian): https://pikabu.ru/story/ostorozhnee_s_youtube_okh_uzh_yetot_mayning_5631802

Is there a browser addon or another tool that can identify miner webpages?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse