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A comment on Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS.

Re:Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in... by bamboozled on Monday April 04, 2022 @08:24AM (#30905811)
Whitelist is a controversial / potentially offensive term, can it be changed please to allow list to make it inclusive please.
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Re:Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in... by frankincense on Monday April 04, 2022 @08:34AM (#30905890)
It's literally the name of the resource:

https://cdn.smoot.apple.com/static/autofill_tld_whitelist_ur...

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Re:Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in... by curt15 on Monday April 04, 2022 @09:21AM (#30906311)
In the same way that "master recording" or "master branch" or "mastering" are somehow not inclusive?
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Re:Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in... by numlock86 on Monday April 04, 2022 @11:22AM (#30907692)
You'd be surprised how many people get offended (usually on behalf of others) by this these days ...
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Re:Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in... by itisit on Monday April 04, 2022 @10:36AM (#30907120)
Is that really necessary when the origin and usage of both words have nothing to do with race?
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Re:Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in... by numlock86 on Monday April 04, 2022 @08:47AM (#30905978)
That's a hoax just like the "ok hand gesture" = "white power" debate. It started as a joke on 4ch, now everyone (even big tech) believes in it because of a few thousand (social) media reposts.
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Re:Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in... by hjkl0 on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @01:03AM (#30928668)
You’re saying that the debate about the terms “whitelist” and “blacklist”, and presumably also “master” and “slave”, is a hoax?
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Re:Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in... by digitalsin on Monday April 04, 2022 @09:01AM (#30906110)
Oh good grief.
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