YouTube advertisements had hidden viruses that hijacked your computer's CPU and made it secretly mine cryptocurrency. Has your computer been running very slow while you watch YouTube, this might be why.
Link to ARSTechnica's article about it : https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/now-even-youtube-serves-ads-with-cpu-draining-cryptocurrency-miners/
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Nowhere is safe now. I'm considering running my browser in a VM after reading this!
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Well this would explain what happened to me then. I've been aware of the Cryptojacking for a while now as I sight I go to off and on does it. But I could not understand why 2 different tabs I had opened with YouTube videos to watch latter started mimicking the same effects. I never thought to look at the ads on them and just added them to my watch latter list and closed the tabs.
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I have noticed that it seems to be happening with those dreaded farcebook ads that play during videos too.
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