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Editorial Pirate Bay Mines Coins in Your Browser - Revenue Model of the Future?

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It has come into the limelight that popular torrenting website The Pirate Bay (TPB) has been running additional code on their site, which helped enable them to make use of a visitor's CPU in mining Monero (XMR, a cryptocurrency with added layers of anonymity when compared to Bitcoin). Now, I realize Torrenting (in particular, of copyright-protected material) is in itself a subject open to heated debate - but let's leave that discussion for another day. Today, I thought I'd focus on this mining act itself, on how TPB was secretly using your computing resources to stealthily mine cryptocurrency which they could then turn into additional revenue.

That this was done without the users' consent is clearly wrong. We as users are entitled to know what to expect from our system and from its usage of our resources - as seldom as we can claim that ability nowadays. That a site we are visiting is using our computing resources to generate additional revenue than the one it obtains from ads without, at the very least, being forthcoming about it (with the increased electricity costs that implies, however small) can be considered, at a minimum, distasteful. However, the discussion becomes much more interesting if we wonder what would have happened if users had, in fact, been warned. What does this mean for the future of web browsing, for revenue models - and for those pesky, flashy, little (or not so little) ads?


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First things first: TPB's miner worked through a JavaScript string, tucked away in the site's footer, and was provided by Coinhive. Coinhive offers site owners the option to convert the CPU power of users into Monero cryptocurrency coins (which is more profitable than Bitcoin). The miner does increase CPU usage noticeably - that's how the trail was originally found, through abnormal CPU usage spikes in certain pages of TPB. The miner wasn't enabled site-wide, however; it appears that its usage was limited to search results and category listings, and not on the homepage or individual Torrent pages. The code was throttled at different rates (there are reports of both 0.6 and 0.8) but the increase in resources was, apparently, immediately noticeable.



The fact that the miner uses JavaScript means that 1) security shouldn't be a concern; and 2) it's easily blockable by browser extensions most users (at least, readers of TPU) already know. Blocking or disabling JavaScript can stop the automatic mining; this can be done via browser settings, script blocker add-ons for your browser of choice (such as NoScript and ScriptBlock), or through ad-blockers (you'll need to add the miner URL manually, for now). TPB operators have, in the meantime, said that the miner was deployed as a 24 hour test as "(...) a new way to generate revenue," stating that "We really want to get rid of all the ads. But we also need enough money to keep the site running." Apparently, a small typo in the code is to blame for the package's detection, since it seems that the code would, at times, peak to 100% CPU usage. According to TPB's operators, "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 open it will only be running in 1."



This is where we're going to take our tangent in the discussion- could this present itself as a "revenue model of the future" for websites? Some users tend to forget that nothing comes for free in this Earth we live in; there are expenses to every single site out there, and ad revenue, as intrusive as it can sometimes be, is what enables most websites to operate, bringing their respective contents to users. However, the dependency on ad revenue for websites has driven some of them to increase ad aggressiveness, with full window or tab pop-ups, messages for users of ad-blocking apps that demand ad-blockers be deactivated on the page, "clickbaity" interfaces with dozens of clicks being needed so you can read an article in its entirety and so on. Ads, when done right and respectfully, are a good way of powering the webpages that we visit, demanding slightly more computing resources on our part, as well as a a measure of attention and focus, and nothing more. To be fair, loading a webpage isn't a zero-sum load on your system, although it is generally not even close to the 100% usage that TPB's Coinhive implementation was demanding (or its 20% iteration, for that matter).



However, we've all seen what happens where revenue is concerned; as an income generator, ads started being more and more exploited in the ways mentioned above, which, naturally, gave way to ad-blocking mechanisms for the offenders - which incidentally, also caught honest, balanced, ad-based websites in the crossfire. And this is, again, the issue with webpage-based miners, even if throttled - only exacerbated by the increased computing strain a given page puts in our computing resources.



The thing here is, virtually every single page in the web nowadays pushes ads through to your computer. This means every page you load, whether in a single or multiple tabs, also loads ads. Luckily, ads are relatively inexpensive when it comes to computing - but even so, there are sometimes measurable performance improvements in using an ad-blocker that prevents them from being loaded. Faster page loads, reduced usage of system resources, the whole galore. Now consider how much more load a cryptocurrency miner will put on your hardware, multiply it by the number of tabs/websites you visit at any given moment, and... why is my 8-core system lagging, really?



The problem, I believe, doesn't lie with the Coinhive technology of embedding the miner in pages. TPB's code was tweaked for the miner to only run in a single tab, for example. It was also further throttled so that it doesn't show as much of an impact on the browsing experience. These are sensible decisions- almost like the conception of ad revenue in the Internet. The problem isn't with the technology per se; it's with site managers, who see increased revenues and want to increase those even more. For every site that implements this system sensibly (let's say, it only runs on a single tab, and uses up to 2% CPU load), I bet there are ten others who are integrating it so that it loads on every tab, with a different instance loading up on every click, and taking up 40% of your computing resources each time (example only, though unfortunately, I fear I'm not exaggerating here).

Another issue stems from the number of websites that implement this additional/alternative revenue model; how many tabs do you usually have open? I'm definitely not a power user, but even for the writing of this article, I had, at one time, 11 different tabs open. Even if only one tab from one website loads up the cryptocurrency miner, and only loads your system by 1%, it's still a linear increase with every website you load. How much processing power (and the energy bill that comes with it) are you willing to give away? If, say, you're only comfortable with 20% usage on your CPU for this, does this mean you'll have to implement a hard limit on the number of websites you have open at the same time?



I thoroughly enjoy the idea; it's ingenious, can be implemented reasonably, and would offer site managers an alternate revenue stream (though it would most likely be an additional revenue stream, let's be honest). I'd be willing to give some additional spare CPU cycles for this if it meant no intrusive ads, no flashy colors grabbing my attention. But in the end, the issue, as always, isn't with the technology; it's with the people that implement it. Web mining is, in my view, unfeasible, because people who abuse the system will automatically profit more. Eventually, the abuse will be widespread and visible enough that users will get sick of those poor team players, and ad-blockers, browser developers (who have already implemented limits to how many computation resources a background tab can demand), and website operators will end up driving web mining the way of the ads. If only we could all be sensible and reasonable, right?

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More proof JavaScript needs to die.
 
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I'm sure it adds up with millions of visitors, but it still seems like such a meager way to revenue. I have a 4670K and a full 24hr day of cpu mining at 100% is only around 50 cents. So a few minutes at partial load is tiny fractions of a penny. And now that it's known people will go elsewhere for searches and/or be more vigilant about using script blockers.
 
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I had read that this is just a trial run and the trial is for 2 months or so. There is a lot of hoop-a-la over this, a lot the responses I've seen do mimick @FordGT90Concept feelings that Javascript is now more intrusive than ever and should die.
 
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As much as I disliked learning Js, killing it is going to be hard. Lots and lots of dynamic/interactive website are using it (Tpu is among them, unity webgl is also using Js, and so are lots of recent impressive web project). And while Js is itself a terrible language to learn, Jquery is making things so easy. Js is still what students are learning in school to make dynamics and interactive website.
 
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YES!!!!!!!

Take my resources internet people and rid the world of those cheap, annoying ads! I don't mind a few ads, but some websites are unuseable because of those pesky ads!

Now we just need some laws to ensure privacy and safety, but I think this is a brilliant idea!
 
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I can't help but sit here and laugh - when you visit sketchy sites to download pirated contents, what do you expect? It is like getting robbed by a drug dealer. You know the risks going in. Are you going to report to the police?

Don't blame JavaScript. Don't blame the tool. It is like blaming the drug dealer's gun for robbing you. Blame the site operator.
 
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Be a bugger if in order to browse the General web you have to have a Specific low powerd machine thats incapable of mining anything
Retro rig with AGP4 card 256m/b ram for example

Trouble is your then get pop up's ( Blocked of Course ) saying your machine is not powerfull enough to view this Site ( utter crap by the Way
 
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If this becomes popular... RIP battery life :laugh:
 

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Another issue stems from the number of websites that implement this additional/alternative revenue model; how many tabs do you usually have open? I'm definitely not a power user, but even for the writing of this article, I had, at one time, 11 different tabs open. Even if only one tab from one website loads up the cryptocurrency miner, and only loads your system by 1%, it's still a linear increase with every website you load. How much processing power (and the energy bill that comes with it) are you willing to give away?

So how long before Some lowlife bright spark writes code that either allows their miner to run in its own tab or worse write code that boots/blocks other miners in other tabs and you end up with say 5 tabs crashing each other fighting for mining supremacy, of their Tab
The Main Browser Companys need to update their Browsers to Automaticly block this for their user base
 
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Js is still what students are learning in school to make dynamics and interactive website.
Everything that needs to be dynamic should be handled by HTML directly (e.g. table sort cores). Web apps should run in a restrictive virtual machine. HTML has noscript tags for a reason and because of the proliferation of JavaScript, they're not used like they're supposed to be. Putting active scripting back in containers means browsers can lay down the law (allow/deny on an individual container basis...ineffective as an advertising and compute tool) and developers have incentive to compensate for it.

There's no reason why JQuery like commands to request dynamic data from a remote server could not be embedded into HTML specification. Of course, as a consequence, developers are limited in what they can do with it because HTML is intended to be a compute-light framework.


I'd argue over half of the internet is unusable because of JavaScript...unless you use a blocker. It's like a cancer on the internet.



Back on topic: this disgusts me because it would steal clock cycles from WCG on my computers.
 

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Everything that needs to be dynamic should be handled by HTML directly (e.g. table sort cores).
HTML is a static display description language by design. The improvements you describe would just result in Javascript again, just being part of HTML

Tpu is among them
Everything on TPU should work without JS. JS is used for additional improvement only.
 

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This is one of the reasons I keep the task manager minimized to systray: so I can easily spot greedy processes and deal with them.
 
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So don't leave the web page open after launching qbittorrent, problem solved.
 
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It is one thing to get enough money to maintain a website, and an other thing to MAKE money at others expense.
Sure ads are annoying, especially on shit websites, but most decent sites can get by with a few ethical ads due to popularity.
This bitcoin mining in browser is pure cancer however, STEALING resources from the user to make money...
 

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HTML is a static display description language by design. The improvements you describe would just result in Javascript again, just being part of HTML
Marquee is an example going way, way back (Edge no longer renders it). Now we have Video in HTML5. HTML hasn't been just static content in a long time. The important thing is that browser developers, not web developers, have absolute control over how to handle HTML. JavaScript is a can of worms. Expand the HTML toolkit to take away the main reasons to use JavaScript and improve the experience for everyone.

Or better, just burn the whole thing and start from scratch. There should only be one specification that handles all presentation, not unlike XAML in WPF.
 
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As much as I disliked learning Js, killing it is going to be hard. Lots and lots of dynamic/interactive website are using it (Tpu is among them, unity webgl is also using Js, and so are lots of recent impressive web project). And while Js is itself a terrible language to learn, Jquery is making things so easy. Js is still what students are learning in school to make dynamics and interactive website.
The language is not the problem.
Instead of JS we could have C, Java, Rust, Python or Erlang, the problem would be the same: lack of control/permissions.

Hint: One of my favourite addons is not called NoJS, it's called NoScript. Though TPU is really, really light on sourcing their JS compared to other site. I can see techpowerup.com, their associated CDN, code.jquery.com and google analytics. Many other sites easily use a dozen sources for their JS.
 

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Marquee is an example going way, way back (Edge no longer renders it). Now we have Video in HTML5. HTML hasn't been just static content in a long time.
The video tag is just as static as an img tag, or is your argument that an animated gif is a dynamic html element? Marquee was removed because it was too limited and functionality is implemented much better by JS or even CSS
 
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It will be cool as hell when a solar flare hits and you're (miners) all broke. Paper/plastic money is bad enough....
 
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We are surprised that the site that has been brought to criminal court on 2 occasions I know of and shut down by various governments no less than 9 times, is shady. I would not have guessed. I mean they have to pay those lawyers somehow.
 
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