Show HN: www.whorunscoinhive.com

3 pointscalpas8y ago10 comments

Check who runs CoinHive, check Coinhive Site Key + Stats/Traffic and expose JavaScript Miner and CryptoJacker.

Today webmasters have the possibility to place code on their website to mine crypto currencies with your computer power. This leads to a high bill from your electricity supplier.

We are here to inform you, because we think it should be transparent to the website's visitor if he wants that, or not. Fair play!

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baltazar8y ago

The domain names have been removed to protect the website visitors. Some of the websites deliver malware and so on and i guess its partially not so good to link to these sites directly!? What do YOU think? I think this guy is crazy: http://whorunscoinhive.com/coinhive_id/FGZZeDbNg5AMpILuz8fKW...

This one guy running tons of adult sites ranking on Alexa...

ChrisGranger8y ago

So the list of offenders contains only those sites that run Coinhive in the background so the visitor is unaware?

[Note that the 'h' in Coinhive is lowercase, perhaps fix that on your site. Also, the site's title should be Who runs Coinhive? and the text above the domain entry field should read Let's Expose!]

herbst8y ago

are the offenders not listed as link for a reason? I just saw TUI and i wonder if thats TUI.com for example.

Also great idea! May also make a Twitter bot to blame them (maybe try to use meta tags to @ them even, when availble)

This practice really sucks, and is just yet another reason to enforce Adblockers on users.

Edit:// Oh btw, what about coinerra.com and other related services?

ChrisGranger8y ago

When it was first posted, the list contained full URLs. I assume the OP removed the TLD to keep the list from being completely open source, perhaps to monetize it.

baltazar8y ago

WhoRunsCoinhive is a nonprofit website... The links are removed because in some regions its not allowed to link to illegal ressources... But i guess in case these are big alexa domains its not hard to findout the domain names :)

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herbst8y ago

I see, that kind of makes it way less helpful for the general internet tho. IMO its fair to public shame anyone doing this.

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Show HN: www.whorunscoinhive.com

3 pointscalpas8y ago10 comments

Check who runs CoinHive, check Coinhive Site Key + Stats/Traffic and expose JavaScript Miner and CryptoJacker.

Today webmasters have the possibility to place code on their website to mine crypto currencies with your computer power. This leads to a high bill from your electricity supplier.

We are here to inform you, because we think it should be transparent to the website's visitor if he wants that, or not. Fair play!

10 comments

baltazar8y ago

This one guy running tons of adult sites ranking on Alexa...

ChrisGranger8y ago

So the list of offenders contains only those sites that run Coinhive in the background so the visitor is unaware?

herbst8y ago

are the offenders not listed as link for a reason? I just saw TUI and i wonder if thats TUI.com for example.

Also great idea! May also make a Twitter bot to blame them (maybe try to use meta tags to @ them even, when availble)

This practice really sucks, and is just yet another reason to enforce Adblockers on users.

Edit:// Oh btw, what about coinerra.com and other related services?

ChrisGranger8y ago

When it was first posted, the list contained full URLs. I assume the OP removed the TLD to keep the list from being completely open source, perhaps to monetize it.

baltazar8y ago

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herbst8y ago

I see, that kind of makes it way less helpful for the general internet tho. IMO its fair to public shame anyone doing this.

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