Startups in 2018

I have written a Chromium plug-in that, upon requesting a web site under the

.io

TLD, instead redirects me to a Russian virus site and downloads Ransomware. Such is the state of Startups in 2k18.

Crypto miners are trivial to thwart because many modern browsers have scripting protections out of the box, so you're counting on a user actively allowing the payload. It's similar with ransomware, but a single user will net you multiple bit coins and not $0.0012/hour.