Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and many others had become an important topic over the past, and due to their rapidly growing value, the mining for new coins has increased . As soon as the time have passed cryptocurrencies had become popular due to their value, and some web developers have resorted to use people's computers and smartphones for mining. According to the latest reports, more than 3 million websites aroung the world have surfaced worldwide in the case of crypto-jacking.Due to the Mining more than a billion people has affected worldwide and this has resulted in causing their devices to run warm, become slower and it over the time it eat up their batteries.
To protect millions of its smartphone browser users,Opera has recently introduced with its Bitcoin Mining Protectection Feature in its browser .
"When you browse the web, there are no visual clues that your device is exposed to mining. A single webpage you visit can take up to 4.5 hours of your battery time, if you keep the tab open. This often turns out to be just the battery time you needed to use a ride-hailing app or check the map to get home,” said Jan Standal, VP Product Marketing at Opera.
After many days of testing by the Opera Developer team ,They have determined that the basic cause behind the Cryptojacking is the scripts mining which increases the user smartphone or computer's CPU usage up to 100 percent and due to this the overheating of device is being done.
What is the new anti-mining feature ?How does it work ?
This feature is enabled or activated by default when we activate the adblocker on the opera browsers (Opera Mini and Opera for Android). The ad-blocker can be enabled in 'Settings' section of the browser, and it will automatically detect and stops the execution of mining scripts which are written into the coding of a webpage. This simple feature stops the mining process and increase the speed of device and after this you can be able to get 100% of your CPU usage.