I am starting to getting tired of websites abusing Web Workers to mining crypto currencies in the background. Browsers should change their default behaviour and ask users for permission before spinning up workers. Similar to other Web API works (Notifications, Storage, Popups,...).
As extensions are still not reliable enough on preventing those scripts from running, in the meantime I've disabled web workers in Firefox so they just fail.
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