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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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Whitelist is a controversial / potentially offensive term, can it be changed please to allow list to make it inclusive please.

That's a hoax just like the "ok hand gesture" = "white power" debate. It started as a joke on 4ch, now everyone (even big tech) believes in it because of a few thousand (social) media reposts.

You’re saying that the debate about the terms “whitelist” and “blacklist”, and presumably also “master” and “slave”, is a hoax?

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

#182
I have the very strong feeling that this is is powered by https://register.apple.com/placesonmaps/ – at least as a hint. As soon as you have officially registered your Apple Maps entry (with an website URL) that website gets on the list.

e: This is reinforced since we updated our domain/URLs from a ccTLD to a gTLD not long ago, also claiming the Maps entry, and the list reflects the gTLD domain!

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