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RE: How Starbucks and YouTube Mine Crypto - Programmer explains
Very interesting video. Thank you for that.
I wonder if there is any way to check if a website is using javascript to mine on your computer? According to your explanation it would be very easy for anyone to use this technique.
How would I know if my computer is being used to mine for someone?
Well you can easily check the javascript code.
That's true, though I think it might be difficult and tedious to go through all the code of every page you look at unless you had reasonable suspicion you were being used to mine.
I was hoping there might be some tell-tale signs or other ways of checking (like looking at the processes running on your machine).
I took a look at your home page by the way. You've got some very interesting articles there so I decided to follow you. Keep up the good work! :D
Yes you are right. Because it is "normal" javaScript code you won't see something special at the processes. As long as coinhive is used the best way seems to be to write a Browser Plugin, which searches the JavaScript Code for the String "Coinhive"..
Thank you. I am very happy that you like my contributions
I discovered this article that gave some pointers. Turns out people have already written browser extensions for this purpose too.
https://fossbytes.com/block-cryptocurrency-mining-in-browser/