Today we’re going to show you how to tell if a website is mining Bitcoins by taking advantage of your visit. How To Know If A Website Is Mining Bitcoins By Taking Advantage Of Your Visit And How To Avoid It?
With the growing popularity of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, some pages are taking advantage of users by using browsers so that visitors mine bitcoins for them.
The pages can do this through a code that causes when you visit the browser begins to use the components of the computer to mine, something that slows your computer in general for the benefit of the web.
We’ll start by telling you how to tell if a website is doing it, but we’ll also tell you how to avoid it with various methods you have at your fingertips.
How to know if a website is mining bitcoins
Minig bitcoins is a process that involves the use of many resources on your computer, and that makes it an easy process to detect.
What you have to do is open the Windows 10 start menu and search and click on the Task Manager application. You can also access it by pressing Control + Alt + Delete at the same time.
Once in it you have to look at the consumption of your browsers. If you see that any of them have CPU or memory consumption strangely high, is possibly because some web is requiring too much of your computer.
This is the first clue that will point out that you are being used to mine bitcoins, but you will still have to identify which page is doing it.
The easiest way to know which page is guilty of mining is to use ‘Who is mining?
It’s very easy to use, and lets you know if a particular website is using browsers to mine Bitcoins.
To use it you have to enter, and once there type the address of the web you want to analyze in the text box (1). Once you do it, press the Look Up button (2). Use it to analyses all the websites you have open when you have detected the peak of resource use.
If the page you have consulted is mining crypto coins through the users’ browser, the website will put the message is Mining, and will add the application or service it is using for mining.
If the page you have searched for is not mining, the web will show you the message is Not mining. Check all the pages you suspect.
How To Know If A Website Is Mining Bitcoins By Taking Advantage Of Your Visit And How To Avoid It
The best way to try to prevent a web mine bitcoins with your browser is to detect it as we have taught you to do, and then simply stop using it.
However, you may want to be able to continue using that web, and in that case you have a couple of things you can do.
The first one is to install in your browser an extension specialized in blocking bitcoins mining.
One of the most popular is No Coin, which you have available for Chrome as well as Firefox and Opera. All you have to do with them is click on their installation buttons to quickly add them to your browser. You also have alternatives like minerBlock for Chrome and CoinBlock for Firefox.
These extensions are a kind of Adblock for mine blocking, and act automatically. When you enter a website that is mining bitcoins they will detect it automatically and block the mining, and so that you know that something is happening on the web you will see an exclamation mark in the icon of the extension.
In the case of No Coin, if you click on its icon you will see a window with options.
In it you will be able to put the page in the “White list” or list of exceptions if you want that particular web you are visiting to mine crypto coins with your browser.
You also have the Pause No Coin button to pause the extension and stop blocking the miner pages.
Adblock filters
And in case the pages are able to skip these apps, you can always use the Adblock filters. If you have this extension, right click on its icon in your browser, and in the pop-up menu click the Configuration option to access the extension settings menu.
Once in the configuration of the extension, click on the category List of filters at the top of the screen. At the bottom of the screen, scroll down completely, and in the category OR enter a URL you have to type the address of a list of filters and press the Subscribe button.
These lists can be found on the Internet, and for example you can use one whose address is: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hoshsadiq/adblock-nocoin-list/master/nocoin.txt.
