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It is worth noting that this method is still under discussion and has not yet received official approval from Google management. In addition, at the moment there is no way to completely block scripts, since software developers can easily modify the miner code to bypass it. Recently, cases of introducing scripts for hidden cryptocurrency mining into the code of websites have become more frequent. For example, the pirate resource The Pirate Bay was previously caught secretly installing mining software on users' computers.

was found in the code of the popular SafeBrowse portugal whatsapp data (version 3.2.25) for the Google Chrome browser, which also forced users' browsers to mine cryptocurrency. The strange behavior of the extension did not go unnoticed, as the load on the central processor increased, which significantly affected the performance of the "infected" computer.

This situation has worried many security experts, and some of them have already proposed their own solution. In particular, Scottish programmer Raphael Keramidas created the No Coin extension, which operates on the principle of an ad blocker, but blocks mining via browsers. Currently, the program only supports blocking CoinHive.