RFE: Add NoCoin list to default Adblock subscriptions.
@RyanFarmer
Submitted by Ryan Farmer Link to original bug (#789325)
Description
Recently, a major problem has appeared on the web where websites are hijacking the user's web browser and are using JavaScript programs to hijack the processor and mine cryptocurrency.
An Adblock list called NoCoin tracks these and blocks the known cases. There are only about 27 rules in the list at the moment, but they are covering a wider arrange of websites all the time. This has been in the news, and it's not just obviously dodgy websites that are doing this. For example, Showtime was caught doing it to people who were watching videos on their website.
Google has noticed this and is trying to figure out what to do about it in Chrome.
It's looking like they're going to detect scripts that use a lot of CPU time and then suspend them with an alert to the user, but it's probably better to just blacklist the scripts themselves as we go. It could ultimately lead to a list of ad blocking rules that are hundreds or thousands of lines long, but we're already well past that point with ad blocking rules anyway (many tens of thousands), and these coin miners are obviously even worse as they steal from the user, make the computer heat up and run slow, and run down the battery on mobile devices.
I fixed this on my system by adding this to my Adblock filters using dconf editor.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hoshsadiq/adblock-nocoin-list/master/nocoin.txt
Version: 3.26.x