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by IshKebab 293 days ago
> Both whitelist and allowlist are equally normal and good.

Good is debatable, but normal?? No, obviously not. One is a word that has been around for over a hundred years and is understood by everyone that speaks English; the other is like 4 years old and only used by some software nerds. 90% of normal people would not know what it means.
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krapp 293 days ago
90% of normal people have never heard of a whitelist either, but any English speaker could intuit what "allowlist" means more easily that "whitelist" without context. And both are technical terms of art in the context of this conversation, so what 90% of normal people would or wouldn't understand isn't even relevant.

And "enshittification" is even newer than "allowlist" and it's practically mainstream.

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bigstrat2003 293 days ago
> any English speaker could intuit what "allowlist" means more easily that "whitelist" without context

That is not true IMO. Blacklist is a standard English word that any native speaker would know; whitelist (while not as standard) is easy to extrapolate from that.

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