• @AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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      3610 months ago

      I’m willing to be we’ll see something to train language models on the user’s hardware soon enough. Folding at home, but instead of helping science, Google steals your electricity.

    • @zqwzzle@lemmy.ca
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      2410 months ago

      The shitty reboot of Office Space where some low level Google employee realizes they can stick a crypto miner in every browser and generate a couple cents from everyone’s browser.

  • @abbadon420@lemm.ee
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    810 months ago

    Here’s the plan. You write an extension for chrome that makes chrome think all traffic from [cryptominingcentral.com] is actually from *.google.com. Make folks install the plugin via the tried and tested methods like phishing. … profit

      • @Hirom@beehaw.org
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        Neither. I use a chromium package from my linux distribution.

        It has many patches on top of the upstream chromium. That probably explain why that unwanted feature isn’t there.

        This issue appear on Google Chrome for Windows on my other machine. Just uninstalled it, never used it anyway.