Recently, numerous websites have decided to include in their internal code lines of scripts to extract cryptocurrencies, using the power of our processors. For them, thus earning an essential extra of money. These scripts, by the way, could mean the smartphone user a slowdown in their computers. So we are talking about dangerous arts in several ways: productive use and damage regarding equipment performance.
AVOID BEING A SLAVE TO CRYPTOCURRENCIES WITH OPERA
That is why web browsers should get down to work to prevent someone from taking advantage of our equipment and fraudulently ‘hiring’ us to mine cryptocurrencies without our consent. And that’s precisely what Opera has done: it just announced, as we read in Android Police, that it is adding a cryptocurrency mining blocking system as part of its usual anti-swiping plugin, to its Opera Mini browser and Opera Mobile. Thus, affected terminals can place a barrier to the scripts and get the phone to render as usual.
This feature was already available in the desktop browser version earlier this month. You can download, right now, any of the two browsers available in the Android Play Store. On the one hand, we have Opera Mini. That is a lightweight browser with, as we said before, built-in ad blocker, the possibility of adding elements to the home screen, data saving settings, optimized downloads, night mode, etc. A free application whose installation file is just over 7 MB.
On the other, we have Opera Mobile or in Spain better known as Opera: News and searches. It is not, exactly, a navigator to the use. But we will find here a site in which to be able to read all the news that interests us, appropriately for the mobile and the tablet. Also, we can also block ads, compress videos from websites to save data, etc. This application is a bit heavier than the previous one, 33 MB.