whenever i look up for help on that site my cpus goes up and the cooler sets in. i have no other page that does something similar.
is that site actively using my cpu for mining or something? or what else is causing that spike in cpu usage there? i often prefer to use my smartphone because of that heavy loading.
has someone investigated that matter further?
Blizzard is a bitcoin miner.
Bandwidth goes towards authentications and we are left with battle for lagjatar.
It’s the ads. They might not be mining your CPU, but they do seem to constantly reload so they can display more bumf. You may want to install an adblocker to see if it makes a difference.
I just use adblocker, leave a wowhead page on, come back after an hour or so, and see over 3000 blocked ads.
Yeah I refuse to believe all those ads are needed for the upkeep of the website.
They just greedy.
Wowhead is full of ads. Just after few minutes adblock shows that it blocked thousands of ads. Not to mention all those autoplay videos.
Also you need to be aware that wowhead actively try to break any ad blocker, so if they detect an ad blocker they up the number of tries per minute, leading to extra load. This is the minimum they do.
I try not to use the site at all now.
I just buy premium which stops it.
Wowhead has multiple issues with scripts and malware ads (some of which somehow sneak past adblockers) that run on their website, and no matter how much I report these to them, their site administrators don’t seem to take this issue seriously.
I would happily turn off AdBlocking on their website to support their efforts, but there are too many malware ads for me to do that.
Your choice of course, but I prefer not to pay extortion. My Choice.
Each to their own.
Other sites that do not stoop that low get supported with donations. As an IT worker I’m fully aware of what it takes to setup, run and maintain a site like that.
About a year or so ago my firewall was kicking up numerous warnings relating to cryptocurrency (it was some form of javascript that was being run on some site i was visiting regularly) and as I don’t participate in anything that would relate to that I started looking in to what was triggering these alerts.
Turns out it was wowhead - They were actively running some form of javascript that was was connecting you through their site to some mining service. No idea how (nor do I care) but I looked at the source site briefly and it appeared to “convert” traffic that they have into bitcoin in some way.
I sent them an email warning them if they didn’t cease or actually tell people they were doing it that I’d report them to the GDPR regulators as it’s absolutely a violation on several counts and there was nothing in their TOS stating they were using you to generate any form of digital currency.
I haven’t visited their site in a while and I pretty much block everything when I do so I can’t say if they’re still doing it.
In theory, it would have to leech your processor’s computing power which would be used to solve math problems.
Technically that is mining bitcoin, but I’m not enough of a computer expert to know if an operation of this “magnitude” is doable through browser scripts and not requiring some sort of installation
Years ago, such a scheme was devised by SETI, the organization that’s searching for alien life. You installed their programme and it would connect to SETI and use some of your processor power for their work, iirc scanning radio signals for anomalies.
it seems there are javascript codes for that kind of stuff. easy to google up.
just need to get the evidence and we are ready to charge :*D
As others said adblock (or ublock origin) is your best friend. wowhead is infested with hundreds of ads… that website is a good example as to why people have adblock installed. So annoying.
Don’t think it’s mining but wowhead is a terrible website to use. It’s infested with ads and trackers.
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