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

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.

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

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Post by drusepth » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 5:47 AM UTC

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.

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

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Post by bjarneh » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 5:52 AM UTC

zombo.com is there :-)

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

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Post by na85 » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 5:53 AM UTC

AraceliHarker wrote: post #4

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Look I love to hate on Apple as much as the next guy but asking that question really doesn't seem like it's being done in good faith.

Do you really think that Apple is subtly supporting an anti-Chinese, anti-Korean, pro-Japanese racist agenda through... an URL autocomplete list?

Or is it more likely that it's a legacy list that has probably not been vetted by a human in quite some time if ever?

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

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Post by vishnugupta » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 5:54 AM UTC

lokimedes wrote: post #2

What is this for, and what should I do to get on, or off the list?

> What is this for

Presumably to auto complete URLs, like "go" to "google.com", in Safari's address bar.

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

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Post by rvz » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 5:55 AM UTC

AraceliHarker wrote: post #4

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Try asking Apple Japan.