solertis / minerblock

An efficient browser extension to block browser-based cryptocurrency miners all over the web.

MinerBlock

MinerBlock is an efficient browser extension that focuses on blocking browser-based cryptocurrency miners all over the web.

How does it work?

The extension uses two different approaches to block miners. The first one is based on blocking requests/scripts loaded from a blacklist, this is the traditional approach adopted by most ad-blockers and other mining blockers. The other approach which makes MinerBlock more efficient against cryptojacking is detecting potential mining behaviour inside loaded scripts and kills them immediately. This makes the extension able to block inline scripts as well as miners running through proxies.

Credit

• Font Awesome by Dave Gandy
• Icon grabbed from tools-and-utensils

Donations

All donations are welcome and greatly appreciated.

Ethereum wallet: 0x3057b2648d905912ef511674aa3ffe9fcf5140db

Press

• The Wall Street Journal
• The Next Web
• TorrentFreak
• CryptoCoinsNews
• The Hacker News
• Bleeping Computer
• Firstpost
• Bad Packets Report

The extension was also recommended by various CERTs around the world:

• SingCERT
• VNCERT
• CERT-IL
• CERT-RO
• CERT-EE
• KZ-CERT