Experts at AdGuard have suggested that the new phenomenon that has seen a couple of sites caught using website visitor’s CPU power to mine cryptocurrency, may in fact be a bigger issue than first believed.
First there was illegal torrent site, The Pirate Bay, that was shown to be secretly mining Monero through Javascript; a way for them to increase their revenue separate from advertising. Then it was online streaming site, ShowTime, that also exhibited the same Javascript.
However, the pirate mining pandemic seems to be much larger as AdGuard have suggested that over 220 sites are actively, and mostly secretly, doing it, affecting over half-a-billion users a month.
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