Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers.

hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• alianne@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In recent years there’s been a shift from “white/black list” to “allow/block list” in an effort to avoid the stereotypes associated with those terms. I wouldn’t say it’s the new norm yet, but it’s slowly becoming more popular.

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  • Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, basically the demand for hate outstrips the supply, so they decided that whitelist/blacklist is racist. Its just a power trip, being able to change peoples vocab with nonsense.

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    • lwuy9v5@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the newer words make way more sense. They actually convey the concept

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      • Polar@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I remember when I tried setting up a server a couple decades ago and I didn’t understand what the difference between a white and black list were. Made no sense to me.

        Allow/block can’t be mistaken. It’s literally a better choice of words for many reasons.

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      • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What makes no sense is the words “white” and “black” as referring to people. People are brown, all of them.

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    • McNasty@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Firefighter is the best of these.

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      • swab148@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I have joined the war on fire, on the side of fire.

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      • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What?

        Fire fighters fight fire. Crime fighters fight fire.

        The weird one is freedom fighters…

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    • KneeTitts@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are a trillion dollar company, they can afford to give some slack on this issue that maybe affects 5% of their users

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  • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah like the master/slave becoming server/client?

    I still don’t like allow list though. Block list seems fine. Maybe access list?

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    • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I feel the use of master/slave to talk about technological concepts took power away from the original conotations of the words and by not using them its actualy making their effect more negative but what would i know.

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    • alianne@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Similar to that, yeah, although I think the master/slave thing started earlier. (It’s a bit more blatant, tbf.)

      I agree that allowlist doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as nicely, but as long as it makes it obvious what the word means, I’ll go with it.

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  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hate that.

    With flying they changed NOTAM from notices to airmen to notices to air missions or something.

    Calm tf down. Will they change Human to hupersons next? Man-made to huperson-made? GTFO here.

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    • Polar@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If something so trivial upsets you so deeply in an attempt to make others feel more included, maybe you should look into yourself.

      You should probably take your advice and calm down.

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      • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Talking with the people involved, at least in my experience, it is an unnecessary adjustment. Nobody “affected” gave a hoot.

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    • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Okay, I have to ask: outside of training, did you ever say NOtice To AirMen? I haven’t. It’s always NOTAM for me. They were nice enough to keep the acronym the same.

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      • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I suppose that’s a fair point.

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