Is startpage.com mining Bitcoin when you open it?

By roscas · 2026-09-19 · 1 points · 2 comments

open startpage.com and it will display "verifying your request" and for 30 seconds, it will bump the CPU usage to high on all cores. so what the page doing by using all cpu power just to check what? this is mining behaviour and this started a few weeks ago, since I noticed. othe…

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