Non-Microsoft web sites owned by Microsoft now pin CPU

Using their global monopoly position, Microsoft must be tempted to abuse their customer's processing power by running some obscured payloads in their browsers. I noticed first that it is happening on Github: when its page is loaded, it pins 50% of one core. Then I visited other sites and noticed the same behavior on Linkedin, but with nearly 100% load of one core. Then Office365 and Teams exhibited the same behavior.

This consumes anywhere from 5-10Wt of electric energy to 20-30Wt. Multiply this by the millions of users, and you arrive at megawatts stolen by Microsoft from its user base and the general public, which subsidizes electricity in many countries.

What is the payload? Is Microsoft mining crypto-currencies on user devices? I believe this question is worth looking into. Even if they do not, even if this is just a very bad and inconsiderate design, common these days, this practice must stop. Such ginormous waste on a global scale is unacceptable for the human civilization.

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