On 27/11/19 9:50 am, Lux, Jim (US 337K) via Beowulf wrote:

Wasn't there a minor scandal a year or so ago about websites mining bitcoin in 
the background using user resources? And some phone apps doing the same?

Javascript cryptominers are a thing, and Firefox tries to block them automatically.

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/block-cryptominers-with-firefox/

All the best,
Chris
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 Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Berkeley, CA, USA
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