Surreptitious cryptocurrency miners hide on Politifact and hundreds of other sites

in blog •  7 years ago 
Politifact is the latest and perhaps most high-profile website to host code that secretly hijacks visitors’ CPUs to mine cryptocurrency. Driven by a boom in cryptocoin value and a lack of protections against JavaScript routines like this one, this surprising form of audience monetization is now found on hundreds of sites. Read More

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    Well, that's stupid. The performance of CPU mining (especially implemented in sandboxed JavaScript) for cryptocurrencies is absolute trash. Politifact would probably make more money from old-fashioned ads.

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