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  • Profile picture of Tommi H

    Tommi H posted an update 8 years, 4 months ago

    For the Chrome browser, there are extensions like NoCoin or minerBlock to block cryptocurrency miners. I use the NoCoin.
    https://betanews.com/2017/12/13/while-youre-watching-streaming-video-your-browser-is-secretly-mining-cryptocurrency/

    • Profile picture of Yiannis Katospiti
      Yiannis Katospiti replied 8 years, 4 months ago

      Makes sense the insidious Facecrack and google mining meta data for cash , f&ck it keep going . They mine us for every single action we do in life. Mine from frigerator use , dishwasher, smart car, smart meter to smart grid , smart phone , smart appliances. Borg I’m out .

    • Profile picture of Kahlypso
      Kahlypso replied 8 years, 4 months ago

      Hmm.. what was that Philip Di ck novel.. Ubik or something.. Have to pay to open the door.. Make money out of everything… I dont like the idea of that future..

      • Profile picture of Margaret W.
        Margaret W. replied 8 years, 4 months ago

        Esp. making money out of death . . . at one time WalMart had life insurance policies on employees and collected on them, unknownst to their families. Several years back there was a big scandal about banks getting huge tax-free benefits from taking out corporate-owned employee life insurance, or COLI, and informally as “dead peasant” insurance. At the time when there were bankers jumping out of windows, mysteriously . . .