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We've previously covered The Pirate Bay's usage of a web-based miner on users' machines without their knowledge or consent. We've even done a pretty extensive editorial on whether or not this could be the revenue model of the future. At the time, we came away with the conclusion that the problem isn't with the technology per se, but with the fact it's implemented by humans (and most problems do have their root cause in us humans after all, don't they?).
This seems to be such a case, since The Pirate Bay has now resumed their web-based mining activities with no Opt-out or, better yet, opt-in business model. Now, however, the code isn't being run in the site's core code, but is instead embedded on an advertisement script (yes, advertisements are still running parallel on The Pirate Bay). The most popular adblockers should be enough to stop this miner from ever running, anyway, but yes, there are still users who surf the web absent of any ad-blocking capabilities - and these should see some added processing spikes on their CPUs.
Adding insult to injury, The Pirate Bay has once again failed to inform users regarding the latest mining efforts. The web mining code's provider, Coinhive, has come out publicly against this practice, saying that "We will verify this opt-in on our servers and will implement it in a way that it can not be circumvented. We will pledge to keep the opt-in intact at all times, without exceptions."
The Pirate Bay team has not commented on the issue thus far. In theory, and considering that the code is now embedded in the advertisement codes, it's possible that TPB isn't to blame for the mining - maybe a rogue ad provider is running the code embedded on their own ads. If that's the case, this mining effort should be disabled soon. if that is indeed the case, though, it does beg a much darker question: how many sites are running these mining scripts on their advertising already, knowingly - and unknowingly?
View at TechPowerUp Main Site
This seems to be such a case, since The Pirate Bay has now resumed their web-based mining activities with no Opt-out or, better yet, opt-in business model. Now, however, the code isn't being run in the site's core code, but is instead embedded on an advertisement script (yes, advertisements are still running parallel on The Pirate Bay). The most popular adblockers should be enough to stop this miner from ever running, anyway, but yes, there are still users who surf the web absent of any ad-blocking capabilities - and these should see some added processing spikes on their CPUs.
Adding insult to injury, The Pirate Bay has once again failed to inform users regarding the latest mining efforts. The web mining code's provider, Coinhive, has come out publicly against this practice, saying that "We will verify this opt-in on our servers and will implement it in a way that it can not be circumvented. We will pledge to keep the opt-in intact at all times, without exceptions."
The Pirate Bay team has not commented on the issue thus far. In theory, and considering that the code is now embedded in the advertisement codes, it's possible that TPB isn't to blame for the mining - maybe a rogue ad provider is running the code embedded on their own ads. If that's the case, this mining effort should be disabled soon. if that is indeed the case, though, it does beg a much darker question: how many sites are running these mining scripts on their advertising already, knowingly - and unknowingly?
View at TechPowerUp Main Site
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like I would go near that cess pool even if I could....
