Whitelist/blacklist names are contrary to common meaning #686
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What I originally thought was a bug, turns out to just be a misunderstanding in how the terms are being used.
The "blacklist mode" description meets the criteria for a standard whitelist, and vice versa.
I think this is causing confusion for people that are already familiar with the terminology. Thus, I believe some of the issues reported may be related ( #636 and #610 ).
If black/white is being thought about as enable/disable, I can see where this logic is coming from. But, from a standard IT/cyber security perspective, this is backwards.
I'd expect the things on my whitelist to be allowed to see my regular useragent, but everything else gets denied. Similarly, in a blacklist mode, I'd expect only the specified items to be denied access to my useragent, while everything else gets a free pass.
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