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Newslink: Google might block embedded cryptocurrency mining with new Chrome feature

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Recently a new craze has been found in website owners to mine cryptocurrency using others user’s computer without their consent, which is completely illegal. Some users could track it successfully and made it public. The first website caught doing this operation is the pirate bay. Later many websites have been caught doing this mining operation by installing mining script into user’s computer. Therefore, in order to prevent them using user’s computer, Google is working on their browser so that users can know what is happening with their computer. Website owners, before running this mining script, must ask their users whether they can use user’s resources.

Read more news here: https://www.hackread.com/google-might-block-embedded-cryptocurrency-mining-with-new-chrome-feature/

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Newslink: Google might block embedded cryptocurrency mining with new Chrome feature was published on and last updated on 26 Oct 2017.