Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
by 8note on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @03:28PM
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Blacklist/whitelist are not used consistently, so the clarity is not there. You can't see whitelist and consistently know whether it's going to be an allow list or a deny list
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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
by shakna on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @08:41PM
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I don't believe I have ever seen a single example of a whitelist not being a list of exemptions. Nor can I seem to find any.
Nor can I find any example where blacklist is not a list of denied subjects. A blacklisted person, website or process is immediately clear within their context.
Where the clarity is lacking is not clear to me. However the mismatch between "allow list" and "whitelist", is. The latter seems to have a different meaning altogether.