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    How to test anti-Bitcoin mining tool

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    • acidinmyfridge
      acidinmyfridge @pe73 last edited by

      @pe73 i agree. a little popup that indicates it would be nice. like in the crypto-stop extension for example.

      You think you know, but you have no idea.

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      • pe73
        pe73 @acidinmyfridge last edited by

        @acidinmyfridge
        Thanks for the support. We should know which sites do the mining and that Opera has blocked them. Otherwise this feature is pretty questionable.

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        • acidinmyfridge
          acidinmyfridge @pe73 last edited by

          @pe73 i tried the nocoin add-on back when it came out and it does work, but i started using cryptostop add-on instead simply because it provided a little popup that indicated mining scripts were stopped and displayed a little number. I guess for convenience the adding of a little popup would be appreciated.

          You think you know, but you have no idea.

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          • A Former User
            A Former User last edited by

            Opera's anti-coin is useless if one has uBlock Origin and/or uMatrix.

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            • pe73
              pe73 @Guest last edited by

              @rudrick Yeah, I know. Some ad blockers and other specialized tools handle anti-Bitcoin protection. However we're talking here about missing a visible notification that Opera has effectively blocked mining.

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              • A Former User
                A Former User last edited by

                You have to open the Developer Tools → Sources tab to see the mining web workers. They will be named like "#1", "#2" etc. with small gear icons next to them.
                What NoCoin does is that it closes them before they could work, and the website reopens them - it's an infinite fight. 🙂

                Just look at Opera's CPU use in the Task Manager and you should see.

                Unfortunately NoCoin doesn't seem to work for ThePirateBay's WASM (assembly) scripts at the moment.

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                • pe73
                  pe73 @Guest last edited by

                  @gombosg Thanks for the explanation but it's far from being user-friendly. Developers will have to come up with a smarter solution. A popup etc.

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                  • blackbird71
                    blackbird71 @pe73 last edited by blackbird71

                    @pe73 said in How to test anti-Bitcoin mining tool:

                    ... Developers will have to come up with a smarter solution. A popup etc.

                    Actually, the popup idea would be useful to alert users to what is going on with that website's code or the JavaScripted site calls it invokes (ads, etc). The users then could/should each raise %$#/@ with the original site operators to get their act together, and in the meantime (or if the site persists in it) the user could avoid the site like the plague.

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User last edited by

                      Just an icon indicating done action.

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                      • pe73
                        pe73 last edited by

                        https://www.ghacks.net/2018/01/23/test-your-web-browsers-cryptojacking-protection/

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