Interesting that the list contains URLs to piracy torrent sites (thepiratebay, etc.) and the Silk Road darknet market (defunct since 2013).
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
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I switched to Firefox about a year ago but I'm really missing the autocomplete from Chrome. I guess sharing my entire digital life with Google had some upside after all.
Joking aside - Firefox makes some strange choices and the I wish mobile and desktop could (optionally) share more of my browsing history. Maybe they do but the autocomplete doesn't behave the same across devices.
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#73I'm curious if this control over auto-complete can help direct users to websites that are favored or approved by Apple, and eventually change people's opinion of which sites are "good".
In a way it's a slight step towards allowing or disallowing visiting certain websites. Is the owner of the phone allowed some control here?
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#74I'm curious if this control over auto-complete can help direct users to websites that are favored or approved by Apple, and eventually change people's opinion of which sites are "good". In a way it's a slight step towards allowing or disallowing visiting certain websites. Is the owner of the phone allowed some control here?
And i assume there are no adult content providers in that list. Who will autocomplete that for me :(
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#75> stallman.org, fsf.org, gnu.org
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
> breitbart.com, stormfront.org
Lulz.
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#76I'm curious if this control over auto-complete can help direct users to websites that are favored or approved by Apple, and eventually change people's opinion of which sites are "good". In a way it's a slight step towards allowing or disallowing visiting certain websites. Is the owner of the phone allowed some control here?
And i assume there are no adult content providers in that list. Who will autocomplete that for me :(
I agree! Typing on mobile with only one hand is the worst!
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#77I'm curious to see how this changes over time, so I threw together a quick repo with a GitHub action to watch the endpoint.
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#78Ugh, 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…
> Ugh, I guess that's why the iOS browsers all suck so hard with autocomplete?
No. Contrary to popular belief, browsers on iOS aren’t all Safari skins. They all use WebKit, but there’s a vast amount of functionality in a web browser that isn’t handled by the rendering engine. This is one example.
Non-Safari browsers on iOS are free to use whatever address bar implementation they like. If Firefox on iOS has a crap address bar, that is 100% down to Firefox.
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#79funny, I checked the different forums I hang around and the only one in the list is the smallest (in terms of user counts). Though maybe it's the most well-known/infamous outside of its direct niche?
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#80Anyone know how this list was created or how often it gets updated?
My hunch was that it originated well before iOS, and could be traced back to forking KHTML, but if that hunch was right I can’t find any way to validate it.
The list was at least updated after iOS:
I've found wiibrew.org and hackmii.com in there which are both Wii homebrew sites that became popular around 2008/2009 and probably declined in popularity starting in ~2012/2013.
Then there's also wiiu-developers.nintendo.com and wiiudaily.com which probably didn't exist before late 2012 or early 2013 when the WiiU was released.