The Pirate Bay Added a CPU Hijacking Bitcoin Miner to Some Pages. File sharing websites are not exactly known for their sterling reputation, though a few such as famed torrent site the Pirate Bay have been around for long enough while generally avoiding shady behavior theyve acquired a certain cachet with the internet community. But gotta gett that cash, baby, and banner ads might not be cutting it any more in the age of ubiquitous ad blocking. The Pirate Bay has added a Javascript based bitcoin miner to its homepage, Torrent Freak wrote, causing some users to notice that their CPU usage increased dramatically when they browsed certain Pirate Bay pages. The plugin, which is provided by Coinhive, puts users computers to work mining Monero, a cryptocurrency released in 2. According to Torrent Freak, the miner was throttled to rates from between 0. Coinhives website does result in an immediate and hard to miss increase in CPU utilization.
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