This open-source extension automatically blocks Crypto Mining Scripts.

Latest Version

Version
1.2.0
Update
December 7, 2017
Size
80.35KiB
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Category
Users
3,000+
Rating
3.86667 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Crypto Miner Blocker Extension

This Google Chrome extension automatically blocks known crypto web mining scripts.

Recently ThePirateBay.org and Showtime.com were caught experimenting with CoinHive, a crypto miner for websites. While this looks like a promising solution to the dying ads market, the implementation of webmasters is simply full out wrong as CoinHive itself has concluded.

A webmaster following the instructions of CoinHive's documentation will by default end up consuming up to 70% of every visitor's CPU until they close the website. While this might not be a problem for desktops engergy-wise, it will drain the battery of laptops and smartphones. And we haven't even talked about the CPU usage slowing the machine down, fan noise, heat and a shorter hardware life.

Until a proper fix is released by CoinHive - for example requiring every visitor's consent before starting mining - I recommend manually adding a few block rules to your favorite ad blocker or installing this extension.
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "Crypto Miner Blocker", "description": "This open-source extension automatically blocks Crypto Mining Scripts.", "homepage_url": "https://git.io/crypto-miner-blocker", "version": "1.2.0", "icons": { "128": "src/img/icon.png" }, "manifest_version": 2, "browser_action": { "default_popup": "src/overview.html" }, "background": { "scripts": ["src/js/blocker.js"], "persistent": true }, "permissions": ["webRequest", "webRequestBlocking", "", "storage", "notifications", "tabs"]}
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User reviews

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king of core (ID: 0000009ac6903a68) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 07/27/2023 i like it my chrome was so slow and i really was think its virus or something happen like hack so i search to find there is new app to stop then i find there is miner on chrome so i search until i find this tools its very easy and supper thank you guys

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Bram B (ID: 000000f9ba9085f8) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 03/21/2022 This is not good. It blocks sites with javascripts with names as difference-determiner.js ; just because it has "miner" in the name. difference-determiner.js is used in every Magento installation so it blocks millions of webstores. Bad.

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Nicolas Rosenkranz (ID: 0000003cefa820f4) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 07/25/2021 Helped me SO many times already. Sometimes a website just tries to open x tabs which are closed immediately. Before that addon I wondered why my GPU would ramp up its fans to 100% for no apparent reason. Thanks guys for that awesome addon! <3

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zombie 666 (ID: 0000008a5c4bedfd) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 02/16/2018 Zatěžuje procesor víc než samotná těžba kryptoměn !

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Farbfilmstudio (ID: 00000064fe22f465) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 02/03/2018 Fairplay! Der Blocker scheint die Miner, welche um Erlaubnis fragen nicht zu blocken!