The coinhive creator put out authedmine for those interested in using an opt-in JS miner in their websites. Seems like a fair use of a JS miner to me.
https://authedmine.com/ > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: blocking coinhive / JS miners > Local Time: November 17, 2017 2:50 PM > UTC Time: November 17, 2017 1:50 PM > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > This info might be useful for those that don't totally block > JavaScript in their browser, but want to be sure to block the new > influx of JS-based miners (eg coinhive). > > I came across the list in a discussion of the new quad9 free DNS > service (at 9.9.9.9, hence the name), which supposedly blocks the > resolution of malware / botnets / "bad-guys" / etc, but is not > blocking any of these sites serving out JS mining code. I'd be > curious to know what anyone thinks of the quad9 DNS service.. I've > not turned it on yet anywhere, but will probably play with it at > home soon.. > > Anyway, the list of sites serving out mining JS lives at the > following: > > https://github.com/Marfjeh/coinhive-block/blob/master/domains > > The fellow who maintains this list has a little makefile one level > up that will add each host as 0.0.0.0 to your /etc/hosts file, if > that's what you would like to do with such a list. Details: > > https://github.com/Marfjeh/coinhive-block/ > > John > > GPG fingerprint: 17FD 615A D20D AFE8 B3E4 C9D2 E324 20BE D47A 78C7
