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open startpage.com and it will display &quot;verifying your request&quot; and for 30 seconds, it will bump the CPU usage to high on all cores.<p>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. other people have noticed it too and said they would not use it anymore because they have to wait +-30 seconds to get some results.<p>did they announce it? could not find anything about that.<p>anyway, I won&#x27;t use it anymore because 30 seconds of CPU usage is an abuse.<p>not everytime is 30 seconds, it must detect that has used CPU before and sometimes is only a few seconds.<p>I would understand this issue if they put it right on the page &quot;we will do some mining for you to use our service...&quot; or something like that.<p>to reproduce, open first a task monitor where you can check the CPU usage, then open the startpage dot com page and see how the CPU bumps into hyperspace!<p>maybe they are just cleaning the dust on the CPU fan, and that is good for you, right?

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/19 20:35:21