Friday, September 22nd 2017
Web Mining, Part Two: Adblock Plus Now Blocks Web Mining Efforts a la TPB
We here at TPU wrote an extensive editorial on the issue of web mining possibly becoming the revenue model of the future. The Pirate Bay may not have been the first site to adopt Coinhive's javascript code for mining purposes when users access its pages, but it was the highest-profile one to be caught, since the performance hogging was enough that users started seeing diminished responsiveness on their systems when visiting the torrent site. On that editorial piece, we talked about the issues of web mining, and compared it to the advent of ad-based revenue models for websites. A piece of our argument revolved around human nature and the pursuit of higher and higher revenue, in a system that would typically reward abuse with higher amounts of mining-generated money - and how users, browsers, and ad-blocking would evolve to also block these mining efforts.
Well, Adblock Plus has gone and done it, adding a filter for Coinhive-based web mining, filtering the mining script. This will likely ignite a cat and mouse game between web mining providers, users, and the browsers and extensions we use to protect ourselves, but it isn't something we hadn't mentioned before. The Adblock Plus extension is available for Chrome, Firefox, and Android. Look after the break for instructions on how to add these filters to your Adblock Plus-enabled browser of choice.
In Chrome, click on the menu button, More tools, and then Extensions. Find Adblock Plus, click on Options, click the "Add your own filters" tab at the top, and in the text field that appears enter ||coin-hive.com/lib/coinhive.min.js and click +Add Filter.
In Firefox, select the Firefox menu (Tools on OS X and Linux), choose Add-ons, and find Adblock Plus. Choose Preferences to access the Adblock Plus profile, click on Filter Preferences, hit "Add filter subscription" and add coin-hive.com/lib/coinhive.min.js.
On Android, open the Adblock Plus application and select Filter Subscription. You can't select multiple filterlists, so you'll have to change your filterlist subscription.
Source:
Venturebeat
Well, Adblock Plus has gone and done it, adding a filter for Coinhive-based web mining, filtering the mining script. This will likely ignite a cat and mouse game between web mining providers, users, and the browsers and extensions we use to protect ourselves, but it isn't something we hadn't mentioned before. The Adblock Plus extension is available for Chrome, Firefox, and Android. Look after the break for instructions on how to add these filters to your Adblock Plus-enabled browser of choice.
In Firefox, select the Firefox menu (Tools on OS X and Linux), choose Add-ons, and find Adblock Plus. Choose Preferences to access the Adblock Plus profile, click on Filter Preferences, hit "Add filter subscription" and add coin-hive.com/lib/coinhive.min.js.
On Android, open the Adblock Plus application and select Filter Subscription. You can't select multiple filterlists, so you'll have to change your filterlist subscription.
21 Comments on Web Mining, Part Two: Adblock Plus Now Blocks Web Mining Efforts a la TPB
Screw ABP. Its all about uB and uB origin
Screw it, what does an adblock service worth if it selectively lets companies buy non-ad protections.
If i like a website, i allow ads in it. End of story.
I use ABP with Firefox and i have yet to see something like that. I use several EasyList filters too and have turned off the option to allow unobtrusive ads.
Or better yet just go to the official site, scroll down and add the NoCoin list.
adblockplus.org/subscriptions