You can now browse with Opera without your cryptocurrencies being stolen
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Recently, numerous websites have decided to include in their internal code lines of scripts to extract cryptocurrencies, using the power of our processors. It was the case, for example, of the almighty Movistar. Neither short nor lazy, the company decided to use its official website, and incidentally the users who accessed it, to 'extract' cryptocurrencies for them, thus earning significant extra money. These scripts, by the way, could slow down their computers for smartphone users, so we are talking about tricks in several ways: lucrative use and damage in terms of 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 is precisely what Opera has done: it has just announced, as we read in Android Police, that it is adding a cryptocurrency mining blocking system as part of its usual anti-advertising plugin, to its Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers. Thus, the affected terminals will be able to place a barrier to the scripts and make the phone perform as usual.
This feature was already available in the desktop browser version at the beginning of the 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, a light browser with, as we said before, a 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 browser to use, but we will find here a site where we can read all the news that interests us, in a way that is appropriate for mobile phones and tablets. In addition, we can also block ads, compress web videos to save data, etc. This application is a little larger than the previous one, 33 MB.
