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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
#82I'm curious to see how this changes over time, so I threw together a quick repo with a GitHub action to watch the endpoint. https://github.com/b0o/apple-autofill-domains
My bet is it's a manual update process once in a blue moon
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#83My 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.
Judging by the quality of some of the websites the chance that their webmasters / marketing teams will ever know the existence of a list like this is close to 0%.
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#84This is an interesting little example of how "systemic" happens, or can happen. The list exists initially to support a feature, a utilitarian reason. Then, being in the list has SEO value or some such. The list becomes a legitimacy or authority test. It affects traffic, sales. Maybe other stuff piggybacks this list. Anyone who needs a list of important domain names uses it. Ordering search results, caching, testing,…
Yes, nice to see we've come full circle at last from Karp, Mills and
Postel maintaining the official HOSTS.TXT throgh the "free internet
era" and back to a nice sanitised, official list of what's on the
internet.
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#85My 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.
FWIW, I am on the list, and I certainly did not ask Apple for that honor ;P. (Also on that list: some scam that is pretending to be me, lol.)
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#86I noticed that tiktok.com is missing, so this list might have been compiled sometime before 2019. I wonder if you could write a script that pinpoints the exact month or even day.
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#87Quoted post unavailable.
This is off topic flame bait.
I'm sorry if my comment came off like that but my point is we don't need such lists and more walled gardens - where is the selection criteria for this?
Who decides these domains? Why does my domain not equal to a domain of my competitor? Does it put me at a disadvantage as a small player if I'm not on this list?
And this isn't just one instance but it keeps happening over and over.. Apps getting rejected from play store due to arbitrary standards while there is news of big cos like google making secret deals with apple to get exceptions and special advantages which the small guy can't (1)
(1) https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2021/09/04/appl...
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#88Anyone know how this list was created or how often it gets updated?
The strangest thing about this list for me is that it contains multiple .onion addresses. It also seems to have been at least somewhat filtered for "objectionable" content (porn etc.). I assume it must have come from user searches at some point?
There are also seven pirate bays.
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#89How does one get access to the direct URL to such a file?
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#90"smoot" dot apple dot com?