In the past six months alone, you can hear about how owners of some websites embed in them programs-miners, which use the power of visitors' computers for mining. Previously, this sinned pirate torrent Piratebay, then pulled up and other large resources. Recently even Starbucks coffee house chain was accused of that one of their establishments uses smart devices and laptops of visitors for the hidden major of crypto currency. Fortunately, very soon all those who do not want to steal Bitcoin's unfamiliar people will be able to use the new Opera browser, which soon will have the function of protection from the programs-miners.
The developers said that Opera will be the first browser in which protection will be implemented from the miners built into the sites in order to use the users' computers to extract crypto currency. The function blocking the activity of the program-miners is called NoCoin. Now it is in development and is available in the assembly of Opera 50 Beta RC, and very soon it will appear in the stable version of Opera 50, which is planned to be released in January 2018.
One of the most popular services that allow website owners to mine with the help of their readers' computers is Coinhive. Now it is installed on thousands of sites, many of which were simply hacked, and the owners still do not suspect that they are working for the benefit of hackers.
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