As time goes by Cases of web mining continue to rise everywhere, since the news that was given a few months ago about the Torrent ThePirate Bay website where without the consent of the users they used their hardware resources for the work of mining cryptocurrencies, until the appearance of extensions and more pages.
Esto has become a real problem for everyone, since any web administrator can implement the necessary files on his web page and the people who access it are not aware of it.
Thus mining through web pages is not only limited to it Yes, besides It has been seen in extensions, malware and even public WiFi networks to mine cryptocurrenciesSee the case where the famous Starbucks Coffee chain also used its customers' equipment to mine through its public Wi-Fi network.
It is because of that the boys of Opera have taken action on the matter and they are released as the first browser to implement a block against web mining.
En its new launch, which will be Opera 50, will integrate protection against mining cryptocurrency natively.
At the moment this version of Opera 50 will be officially released until next year, but it is not something alarming because they have already made this function available to us in the Beta version that we can now download.
Thus We just have to go to the browser settings where you will find the option «NoCoin» where we can activate or deactivate to block all those mining scripts known so far.
If you are interested in protecting yourself against this type of abuse, do not hesitate to obtain the Beta version of Opera 50 and have the necessary protection to safeguard your resources on your computer and have a safer browsing, you can obtain the installer package from here.