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WARNING: Ads on YouTube can use miners on your browser

8 points by GRiMe2D 8 years ago · 1 comment · 1 min read

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There are some incidents that ads on youtube.com can spawn miners on your browser.

When watching a video, when your progress bar touches "yellow area", CPU usage can jump up to 100%.

Source (in russian): https://pikabu.ru/story/ostorozhnee_s_youtube_okh_uzh_yetot_mayning_5631802

eirannejad 8 years ago

Is there a browser addon or another tool that can identify miner webpages?

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