How to know if a website is mining bitcoins taking advantage of your visit and how to avoid it

Today we are going to show you how to know if a website is mining bitcoins taking advantage of your visit. With the growing popularity of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, some pages are taking advantage of users using browsers for those who visit them to mine bitcoins for them.

The pages can do it through a code that causes that when they visit the browser it begins to use the components of the computer to mine, something that slows down your equipment in general for the benefit of the web. We will start by telling you how to know if a website is doing it, but we will also tell you how to avoid it with several methods that you have at your disposal.

How to know if a website is mining bitcoins
Task Manager
Minar bitcoins is a process that involves the use of many resources on your computer, and that makes it an easy process to detect. What you have to do is open the Windows 10 start menu and search and click on the Task Manager application. You can also access it by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Delete at the same time.

Something Suspicious Passes
Once in it you have to look at the consumption of your browsers. If you see that some of them have strangely high CPU or memory consumption, it is possibly because some website is requiring too much of your computer. This is the first clue that will point out that they are using you to mine bitcoins, but you will still have to identify which page is doing it.

Who Is Mining
The simplest way to know which page is guilty of mining is to use 'Who is mining?'. It is very easy to use, and lets you know if a specific website is using browsers to mine Bitcoins. To use it you have to enter, and once in it write the address of the web you want to analyze in the text box (1). Once you do, press the Look Up button (2). Use it to analyze all the webs that you have open when you have detected the peak of resource utilization.

This Minando
If the page you have consulted is mining cryptocurrencies through the user's browser, the web will put the message is Mining, and add the application or service that you are using for mining. If the page you have searched for is not undermining, the web will show you the message is Not mining. Do the checks with all the pages you suspect.

How to prevent them from mining bitcoins with your browser
The best way to try to prevent a web mine bitcoins with your browser is to detect it as we have taught you to do, and then simply stop using it. However, you may want to be able to continue using that website, and in that case you have a couple of things you can do.

No Coin
The first one is to install in your browser an extension specialized in blocking the mining of bitcoins. One of the most popular is No Coin, which you have available for Chrome, Firefox and Opera. The only thing you have to do with them is to click on their installation buttons to quickly add them to your browser. You also have alternatives like minerBlock for Chrome and CoinBlock for Firefox.

Blocked Miner
These extensions are a kind of Adblock for the blocking of mines, and they act automatically. When you enter a website that is mining bitcoins they will automatically detect it and block the mining, and so you know that something is happening on the web you will see an exclamation mark on the extension icon.

In the case of No Coin, if you click on its icon, a window with options will appear. In it you can put the page in the "White list" or list of exceptions if you want that particular web you are visiting if you mine cryptocurrency with your browser. You also have the Pause No Coin button to pause the extension and stop blocking the mining pages.

Adblock
And in the case that the pages are able to skip these apps, you can always use the Adblock filters. If you have this extension, right click on its icon in your browser (1), and in the pop-up menu press the option Configuration (2) to access the settings menu of the extension.

Add Filter
Once in the configuration of the extension, click on the category List of filters (1) at the top of the screen. In it goes down to the bottom, and in the O category enter a URL you have to write the address of a list of filters and press the Subscribe button (2). You can find these lists on the Internet, and for example you can use one whose address is: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hoshsadiq/adblock-nocoin-list/master/nocoin.txt.