Whitelist is a controversial / potentially offensive term, can it be changed please to allow list to make it inclusive please.
Oh good grief.
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
#122Ha! This explains why I always get "cookieandkate.com" suggested when I want to visit another site that starts with "cookie". I was extremely frustrated that it suggested that site with higher priotity than the one I actually visit mostly every day. And I had never myself gone to that site. Now I know why...
That's very strange, you'd expect Apple to provide a good UX by suggesting a website from your bookmarks, history and then their list. I wonder whether that's an oversight or an intentional implementation.
It does - some people always browse in Private Mode or have History off
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
> and that the website is still exactly the website they intended it to be. How could they realistically do that?
I am sure they can find a way with tens of billions in quarterly revenue.
Billions in quarterly revenue doesn't allow Apple to solve the halting problem. I can't begin to imagine how they would do what you're suggesting. They need to detect when a website changes in kind, but ignore day-to-day changes or normal UI revamps.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Periodically searching this list for purchasable domains seems like something scammers would be very very interested in. Honestly, apple should be making sure every one of these URLs goes to a live website and that the website is still exactly the website they intended it to be.
> and that the website is still exactly the website they intended it to be. How could they realistically do that?
If you make a curated list, you become responsible for it ?
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#125Fascinating. I know of an organization that abandoned (other than redirects) their original domain name about 4 years ago and adopted a new domain name. The old domain name is in the list (with about 30 subdomains!), but the new domain is not in the list at all. This makes me wonder how (if) the list is updated.
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#126Whitelist is a controversial / potentially offensive term, can it be changed please to allow list to make it inclusive please.
In the same way that "master recording" or "master branch" or "mastering" are somehow not inclusive?
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#127Instead of doing any thoughtful analysis of this list, I'm treating it as a random web ring and clicking through to an eclectic bunch of sites. Currently on websites starting with 'joe'. Because Internet entropy is fun. More fun than a recommendation engine.
You reminded me of StumbleUpon. I miss that service dearly, or maybe I just miss that general era of the Internet.
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#128OP here. I found this URL by intercepting traffic on my older jailbroken iOS device. It's possible that a more recent version of iOS doesn't use it. This url, among others, was returned in some configuration-fetching call to https://api.smoot.apple.com/bag (which requires auth)
Here's some other ones:
- "correction_dict_url": "https://cdn.smoot.apple.com/static/static_corrections_dict/2..."
- "crowdsourcing_blacklist_url": "https://cdn.smoot.apple.com/static/crowdsourcing_blacklist_u..."
- "crowdsourcing_whitelist_url": "https://cdn.smoot.apple.com/static/crowdsourcing_whitelist_u..."
- "spotlight_model_resources": "https://cdn.smoot.apple.com/static/spotlight_model_resources..."
- "spotlight_stopword.map": "https://cdn.smoot.apple.com/static/spotlight_suggestions_sto..."
- "spotlight_phrase_dictionary.map": "https://cdn.smoot.apple.com/static/spotlight_suggestions_phr...
- "silhouette_topic_mapping": "https://cdn.smoot.apple.com/static/silhouette_topic_mapping/..."
- "silhouette_whitelisted_topics": "https://cdn.smoot.apple.com/static/silhouette_whitelisted_to..."
- "silhouette_config": "https://cdn.smoot.apple.com/static/silhouette_config/5/silho..."
- "dictionary_resources_url": "https://cdn.smoot.apple.com/static/dictionary_resources_url?..."
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#129"smoot" dot apple dot com?
Could be further immortalization of Oliver Smoot, “a fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha, who in October 1958 lay down repeatedly on the Harvard Bridge (between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts) so that his fraternity brothers could use his height to measure the length of the bridge, which summed to "364.4 Smoots ± 1 ear"
Re: Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am sure they can find a way with tens of billions in quarterly revenue.
Billions in quarterly revenue doesn't allow Apple to solve the halting problem. I can't begin to imagine how they would do what you're suggesting. They need to detect when a website changes in kind, but ignore day-to-day changes or normal UI revamps.
There is a service called Visualping that basically does this. It takes a screenshot and sends you a “diff”. You can set it and say by what % things need to change.
They could use a similar tool plus human review to maintain the list.