[samhunta]

Possible deterrents -

1. Use cgroups to limit cpu usage on a process.

2. Block coinhive

3. Implement captchas

4. Cloudflare

5. Adblock

6. API throttling and 1 minute cache per URL

7. Disallow 1 IP from creating more than X accounts at a certain speed per day

[icebraining]

Adblock?

[bdcravens]

If you were using Selenium to generate the screenshots (they weren't, they were using curl) you could add Adblock to the browser being used on your server (Selenium just automates a real browser) which will block Coinhive.

[icebraining]

Thanks, I didn't know adblock blocked Coinhive.