Microsoft Edge Secret Whitelist Allows Facebook to Autorun Flash

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Post by metaphysics » Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 1:48 AM UTC

Microsoft Edge Secret Whitelist Allows Facebook to Autorun Flash
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Post by canada_dry » Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 3:54 AM UTC

Mitigating factors: the largest demographic of FB users are the 50+ crowd and they're still using IE8 on Win95. That, and who uses Edge?!? /s

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Post by oreo82 » Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 5:50 AM UTC

“Whitelist” is no longer an acceptable term. Please change the title to use a less oppressive word.

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Post by postpawl » Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 6:23 AM UTC

oreo82 wrote: post #3

“Whitelist” is no longer an acceptable term. Please change the title to use a less oppressive word.

This is a joke, right?

Check out the history of the word blacklist: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 8:44 PM UTC

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Post by oreo82 » Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 8:45 PM UTC

postpawl wrote: post #4

oreo82 wrote: post #3

“Whitelist” is no longer an acceptable term. Please change the title to use a less oppressive word.

This is a joke, right? Check out the history of the word blacklist: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting

No, oppression isn’t a joke. https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-knodel-terminology-00.html You’re going to need to just get over your bigotry at some point and stop oppressing others.