False positives for crypto mining

https://coinhive.com/ and https://cnhv.co/ should not be in the Unified hosts list because it’s not malware neither adware.

Please don’t be like Easy List.

[ScriptTiger]

@vitorgatti, are the below snippets accurate for the domains you have listed?

https://coinhive.com/: Coinhive offers a JavaScript miner for the Monero Blockchain (Why Monero?) that you can embed in your website. Your users run the miner directly in their Browser and mine XMR for you in turn for an ad-free experience, in-game currency or whatever incentives you can come up with. grant video streaming time; offer files …

https://cnhv.co/: Proof of Work Shortlinks. If you have an URL you’d like to forward your users to, you can create a cnhv.co shortlink to it. The user has to solves a number of hashes (adjustable by you) and is automatically forwarded to the target URL afterwards. Example: cnhv.co/6bk (this just forwards to the Monero article on Wikipedia).

If they are accurate, these are not false positives according to this repository’s current mission statement. If you would like to rebuttal this, can you please contain a link to your current website implementing these scripts which clearly contains or links to a proper terms of use making your users aware of crypto mining occurring on your website and your current policy regarding it? I am sure you can understand our reluctance to allow domains that contain crypto mining scripts since the vast majority of people who implement them don’t come with a terms of use or end-user agreement or any kind of policy or opt-in/opt-out features, which encroaches legalities in many jurisdictions. Google Ads are 100% legal and legitimate, and this repository still chooses to block them because that is part of the mission statement. I hope you can understand our position and I do look forward to hearing your feedback.

[ScriptTiger]

@StevenBlack, have you taken a look at EasyList? At first glance its structure would seem different, but there are also some strong similarities, as well, to your repo in various places.

@vitorgatti, out of curiosity and for clarification, you would not like this list to be like EasyList in what way? I don’t personally have any experience with it, so I am genuinely curious of your thoughts on it. And is this issue at all related to your other recent issues related to your own pool (https://github.com/Snipa22/nodejs-pool/issues/139, https://github.com/Snipa22/nodejs-pool/issues/199, https://github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/2855)? Steven will also want to know how you have verified your listed domains no longer contain mining scripts. And thanks in advance, I hope you understand we just like the list to be as efficient as possible, which requires us to be thorough in some aspects.