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The Pirate Bay annoys its users - JavaScript takes all the CPU, mines cryptocoins

article published on 17 September, 2017

Infamous The Pirate Bay has been struggling with its revenue, as the advertisers and ad networks have largerly disappeared from the site due its gray legal status in most countries. Now, the site has experienced with new kind of revenue stream that has annoyed its users. TPB began an experiment - that is apparently due to last for 24 hours - whereby the site's source code contains a JavaScript ... [ read the full article ]

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Bozobub

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18. September 2017 @ 11:28

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The TPB staff, via TorrentFreak:

?As you may have noticed we are testing a Monero javascript miner. This is only a test. We really want to get rid of all the ads. But we also need enough money to keep the site running.?

?Let us know what you think in the comments. Do you want ads or do you want to give away a few of your CPU cycles every time you visit the site? Of course the mining can be blocked by a normal ad-blocker.?

?Note: Initially there was a small typo so all CPU for a client was used. This should be corrected now so only 20-30% should be used. Also it is restricted to run in one tab only so even if you have 10 tabs oven it will only be running in 1.?

I run an adblocker (uBlock Origin) and never saw this at all; who uses TPB without an adblocker..?! That said, I actually have NO problem with this, in principle, especially if they throttle it back to 20-30% of CPU and it only runs while TPB is open in your browser. You can always opt out, after all, by not using the site and you can use TPB without it anyway, since it's easily negated with an adblocker.

Websites need to pay their bills, that simple, and NOTHING is worse than the ads on TPB; anyone whining about this needs to smack themselves awake: you're whining about a negligible cost for your *free*, illegal (for the most part) swag, people; I have exactly zero sympathy. Gosh, those people taking a huge legal risk like to keep the site running, not to mention pay rent/mortgage and eat, who knew?

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ivymike

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19. September 2017 @ 00:38

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Good thing I only access TPB on a virtual machine....

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hearme0

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19. September 2017 @ 11:32

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Not sure this will affect users such as myself.

I'm a Firefox user at home and Chrome at work.

Java is NOT F'ING ALLOWED in any computer of mine......EVER. Flash was nixxed too back a few years ago.

So I tested this and not quite sure if the "monero" process is still running on TPB or if they stopped it but I turned Ublock Origin off and no difference on CPU. Let it sit for couple minutes with Ublock on and off with no difference.

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Bozobub

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19. September 2017 @ 12:26

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If you turn off uBlock (or any adblocker) w/o refreshing the page, it does nothing until you do so.

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