The Pirate Bay is mining cryptocurrency from users visiting on their website by using a miner. They began testing this since last year as there were reports of TPB using miner. Some of the users are unhappy with this way of mining without users consent.

This was reported on the official web forum of The Pirate Bay. The users of the forum are unhappy with the current mining plan of TPB. A moderator of the forum states that the miner can easily be blocked by the users.

One of the users of the forum started the thread with the script code of the miner. He has found this as he was uploading the file and let the tab open and noticed his CPU getting hot. Then he checked on the source of the page and found the miner.

In the image, we can notice that the throttle is set to 0.9 which is higher than the last time they used.

Some users of TPB are unhappy due to the heating of CPU’s.

According to TorrentFreak, The Supermoderator Sid was not happy with the miner on the pirate bay website. So he suggested the users enable “Adblocker” while using the pirate bay website.

Currently, users who know about the miner are either using Adblocker or Users who have good CPU’s are allowing the mining process to take place. Also there are some mining blockers specifically for chrome browser as an Addons.

A similar way of raising funds using a miner was done by charity organization UNICEF to raise funds. But they have given a button where users can give their consent to mine the cryptocurrency using their browser.

TPB must come up with a similar custom option to allow users to enable or disable it. Also, with this option, the users with high-end CPU’s can enable it and users who wish to disable it can do it. Thus it will be the users choice.

Let us hope that TPB comes up with a solution which makes the users of their website happy again.