How to prevent your computer from being hijacked for Cryptocurrency Mining

in a-a-a •  7 years ago  (edited)

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Disable Javascript on your browser

Naturally, The Pirate Bay users got concerned about the impact such a thing would have on their online safety. However, turns out, that the code The Pirate Bay was using for hijacking visitors’ CPU power was based on Javascript. So if you simply, disable Javascript on your browser, The Pirate Bay would no longer be able to exploit you for CPU power.

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