Crypto Miner Blocker
Overview
Crypto Miner Blocker is a Chrome extension developed by Sander.
According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of Crypto Miner Blocker is 1.2.0, updated on 2017-12-07.
3,000+ users have installed this extension.
14 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .
This open-source extension automatically blocks Crypto Mining Scripts.
This Google Chrome extension automatically blocks known crypto web mining scripts.
Recently ThePirateBay.org and Showtime.com were caught experimenting with CoinHive, a crypto miner for websites. While this looks like a promising solution to the dying ads market, the implementation of webmasters is simply full out wrong as CoinHive itself has concluded.
A webmaster following the instructions of CoinHive's documentation will by default end up consuming up to 70% of every visitor's CPU until they close the website. While this might not be a problem for desktops engergy-wise, it will drain the battery of laptops and smartphones. And we haven't even talked about the CPU usage slowing the machine down, fan noise, heat and a shorter hardware life.
Until a proper fix is released by CoinHive - for example requiring every visitor's consent before starting mining - I recommend manually adding a few block rules to your favorite ad blocker or installing this extension.
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Bram B
2022-03-21
This is not good. It blocks sites with javascripts with names as difference-determiner.js ; just because it has "miner" in the name. difference-determiner.js is used in every Magento installation so it blocks millions of webstores. Bad. |
Nicolas Rosenkranz
2021-07-25
Helped me SO many times already. Sometimes a website just tries to open x tabs which are closed immediately. Before that addon I wondered why my GPU would ramp up its fans to 100% for no apparent reason. |
zombie 666
2018-02-16
Zatěžuje procesor víc než samotná těžba kryptoměn ! |
Farbfilmstudio
2018-02-03
Fairplay! |
Bram B
2022-03-21
This is not good. It blocks sites with javascripts with names as difference-determiner.js ; just because it has "miner" in the name. difference-determiner.js is used in every Magento installation so it blocks millions of webstores. Bad. |