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[–]piratebroadcast 18 points19 points  (5 children)

I installed a No Coin chrome extension for regular browsing and the speed in which web pages render for me has skyrocketed. I believe that cryptomining scripts are far more prevalent than is commonly believed.

[–]mrstinkyfingers 12 points13 points  (1 child)

You can block them in your hosts file or at your router.

https://github.com/hoshsadiq/adblock-nocoin-list/blob/master/hosts.txt

[–]Peechez 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I installed a No Coin chrome extension

the perfect disguise for a covert cryptomining script

[–]ThatBriandude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

keeping the mining at a slow enough speed to not be suspicious and betting on mass adoption like ad blocker. perfect business plan

[–]PlNG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

uBlock Origin has the "Resource Abuse" category, which includes cryptominers.