Mining with a browser? Google Chrome is against it!

Anyone who is interested in crypto-currencies has probably heard about mining - a technology for creating new blocks in a distributed system for which they receive remuneration in an equivalent crypto...

Anyone who is interested in crypto-currencies has probably heard about mining - a technology for creating new blocks in a distributed system for which they receive remuneration in an equivalent crypto currency. Recently, there has been more and more news about mining using web browsers.

What does it mean?

Modern sites use scripts for different tasks: providing interactivity of pages, collecting statistics, browser games, etc. Scripts written in languages ​​such as JavaScript are run on the user's side. That is, the browser recognizes the code and executes the prescribed algorithm at the expense of the user's PC.

In addition to scripts responsible for the functionality of the site there are also those that can secretly collect information or use the resources of the user's computer, for example.

Serious processing power is required for mining. The idea of ​​using the computer power of users by embedding JavaScript scripts on sites that deal with the production of crypto currency was quickly thought of and was shortly after implemented. There were such services as CoinHive, JSEcoin, and Crypto-Loot.

We do not see it but this is already happening!

One of the first to test the web-mining torrent tracker was The Pirate Bay. Then, other popular and well known sites were discovered doing hidden mining.

There are now many extensions for popular browsers that block mining scripts. Such functions are provided by AntiMiner, No Coin, and minerBlock extensions.

Filter by Google

In fact, it's enough to use any plug-in to disable JavaScript. But one of the developers of Google Chrome, Ojan Wafay, had an idea to implement protection from hidden mining in the code of the browser itself. If a web page takes a long time to load by the user's processor, then the resource saving mode will be enabled for it and the browser will give a notification to the user. If the user wants to disable the protection, he can do it in the settings.

It is not known exactly if such functionality will enter into the subsequent releases of Chrome, but the idea has already been supported by at least one of the developers.

In any case, we can say that as new problems and threats arise in the world of the web we will receive more and more convenient, intelligent, and sophisticated tools for working on the Internet.