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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Website mining Bitcoin without permission?
by
pugman
on 30/10/2017, 05:42:28 UTC
After reading about the Pirate Bay hijacking web miners (https://gizmodo.com/the-pirate-bay-added-a-cpu-hijacking-bitcoin-miner-to-s-1818488143) I wondered if anyone had created a list of such sites. How would you even detect that the site is stealing compute power from your device?
I don't think there is any kind of software that takes care of mining without permission, it's their website that does all the shady stuff, this is one of the easy ways for pirate sites to earn revenues and even though it's illegal they do it because pirating is also illegal.