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Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS

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Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS

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Post by undefinedzero »

black_puppydog wrote: post #59

Ugh, I guess that's why the iOS browsers all suck so hard with autocomplete? I always long for Firefox's url bar, it easily beats everything else since Firefox 2 came out or so. Nowadays you have to un-configure two layers of "let's put a search bar in your URL bar" but then it's still just amazing. Especially compared to google, which obviously doesn't have an incentive to have you skip searching on google.com... an…

It seems like a useful privacy feature to me. I don't want Apple or Firefox to pass every site I visit every time I visit it to Google, Apple or any other company under US law.

Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS

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Post by sph »

blowski wrote: post #52
sph wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is off topic flame bait.

I think what the OP is getting at is that Apple has a "secret" list of domains that it has approved for suggesting. There's no means by which we can get on to that list. In an open source browser, this list would be public, and assumedly there would be some way of submitting a change request. All that said, I think this is a little overblown. I doubt many people go to one site over another based on the existence of t…

Nowhere in their comment they mention the topic at hand, it's just a jab at controversial things Apple has done. It doesn't add anything to the post but causes outrage for the sake of it.

Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS

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Post by harry8 »

petesergeant wrote: post #49
harry8 wrote: post #44

Wikileaks.org etc are in there. Leaving them out would be wrong IMHO. I'm not sure what to make of having them in there though.

You should "make of" it that Apple consider it a popular domain people try and navigate to

You think apple are above censorship at the behest of politicians?

Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS

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Post by crossroadsguy »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #25

My competitor is in this list and I'm not, even though my site is more popular. There even are some small Dutch campings, municipalities and regional football clubs on this list. It's a strange list for sure.

mailboxapp.com (long dead/euthanised) is there, but mailbox.org (kicking) isn’t.

It might be a list that was made by each company request? Based on some form or authentication or as such? And the companies who didn’t approach Apple aren’t there. Just guessing. But I can imagine Apple doing such hacky things, though most of those remain behind the orchard curtain.

Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS

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Post by playpause »

ricardobeat wrote: post #55
drusepth wrote: post #6

Interesting side-note: there are only two *.ai domains on this entire list: 1. "tempo.ai", which doesn't actually resolve 2. "web.ai", an http-only site that looks kind of like a cross between a geocities website and a parked spam page, with the content allegedly last revised almost 20 years ago (2003) I wonder how old this list is.

When I type “web.” it autocompletes to “web.archive.org”, I don’t think this list is up to date at all.

Probably stuff in your own history takes precedence?

Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS

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Post by iggldiggl »

undefinedzero wrote: post #61
black_puppydog wrote: post #59

Ugh, I guess that's why the iOS browsers all suck so hard with autocomplete? I always long for Firefox's url bar, it easily beats everything else since Firefox 2 came out or so. Nowadays you have to un-configure two layers of "let's put a search bar in your URL bar" but then it's still just amazing. Especially compared to google, which obviously doesn't have an incentive to have you skip searching on google.com... an…

It seems like a useful privacy feature to me. I don't want Apple or Firefox to pass every site I visit every time I visit it to Google, Apple or any other company under US law.

Yes, although in principle this kind of list should only be necessary for fresh browsing profiles (plus people who don't keep a local browsing history). Once you've used the browser for a while, autocomplete should predominantly be powered by your local browsing history anyway.

Firefox on Android e.g. used to (or still has – I'm not sure what the state is nowadays after the rewrite) have a similar (although somewhat smaller) list of popular domains which it would use for providing autocomplete results if it couldn't find anything in your history, but local history always had priority.

Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS

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Post by smileybarry »

Oddly enough, tier 1 cell carriers that have agreements with Apple aren't immune to being forgotten by Apple.

The list has "orange.co.il" (now NXDOMAIN) but not "partner.co.il". Partner (one of 4 main cell networks in Israel) used to be called Orange but they terminated that agreement with Orange FR years ago (which I'm guessing is why they can't redirect "orange.co.il" either).

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