Chrome cryptominer when
Probably already installed. That would at least explain the high resource usage of chrome
The shitty reboot of Office Space where some low level Google employee realizes they can stick a crypto miner in every browser and generate a couple cents from everyone’s browser.
G Suite Space?
Here’s the plan. You write an extension for chrome that makes chrome think all traffic from [cryptominingcentral.com] is actually from *.google.com. Make folks install the plugin via the tried and tested methods like phishing. … profit
couldn’t you do that anyway if you can get people to install an extension? taking advantage of this for crypto mining purposes feels like extra steps
Cannot reproduce on chromium. Has anyone reproduced it?
yeah:
{ "value": { "archName": "arm64", "features": [], "modelName": "Apple M2", "numOfProcessors": 8, "processors": [ { "usage": { "idle": 10841460, "kernel": 611796, "total": 13342920, "user": 1889664 } },...Did you use normal chromium or Ungoogled Chromium? I tried it on the Arc Browser (which is based on Chromium), and it worked, but it didn’t work on Ungoogled Chromium.
Neither. I use a chromium package from my linux distribution.
It has many patches on top of the upstream chromium. That probably explain why that unwanted feature isn’t there.
This issue appear on Google Chrome for Windows on my other machine. Just uninstalled it, never used it anyway.
Reproduced here, Chromium on Linux Mint desktop. You need to have open a Google.com site for it to work though.
