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    The Pirate Bay caught mining crypto coin through users' PCs, again

    Caught with its hands in your CPU jar

    The Pirate Bay has been found to be secretly mining digital coins through its user's computers, for the second bloody time.

    The last time this went down punters reacted in two ways. Some were massively miffed, while others took an "if only you'd asked" approach to the news about their preferred provider.

    According to Bleeping Computer, the miner is running with no opt-out option. "The Pirate Bay, the internet's largest torrent portal, is back at running a cryptocurrency miner after it previously ran a short test in mid-September," it said.

    "The technology in question is called Coinhive, a JavaScript library that allows The Pirate Bay's owners to make money by using the site's visitors computers to mine Monero, a very profitable cryptocurrency".

    September's effort was explained by the Bay at the time as an alternative to running adverts, however, the fact that the site was not explicit about the effort meant it shocked some people. Bleeping Computer reckons that Coinhive advises sites that use it to let their users know so it might be fair to critique the Bay on that.

    We cannot legally check the blogs on the Pirate Bay because our ISP has been ordered to block it to save us from something.

    Bleeping Computer suggests that the Pirate Bay has been backwards in coming forward about this anyway, and adds that the Coinbase option may not be best one foist on people.

    "Most site operators don't do such things, and the script is a favorite among malware developers. Lately, another service named Crypto-Loot also popped up as an alternative to Coinhive and is currently gaining its own fanbase among malware devs," it said.

    "Because of all the recent Coinhive abuses, most ad-blockers and antivirus engines will block the script, or at least notify users that the script is running. There are also Chrome extensions that can block local, in-browser cryptocurrency mining."

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    Media is so dumb. Caught? It was never a secret..



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