{"id":12110,"date":"2020-06-18T11:22:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T15:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/?p=12110"},"modified":"2020-06-18T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T15:22:52","slug":"removal-of-blacklist-in-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/?p=12110","title":{"rendered":"Removal of “Blacklist” in Software"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Google will remove the usage of “blacklist” in Chrome<\/a> and it spurred some discussions. I’m a bit surprised to see a lot of people laughed at it. I support this move. Here is my reasoning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assume you’re a developer, if you start writing a new project today and need this allow\/block functionality, would you use the terms “whitelist\/blacklist”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the answer is yes, I think you’re being too insensitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the answer is no, then the difference comes down to the migration cost: whether the preference to terms other than “blacklist” overweight the cost of changing codes. We should respect a piece of working software<\/a>. So I won’t judge companies that don’t replace “blacklist” as a term since I’m not in the position to evaluate the migration cost of a project I don’t know, which could be really big. For the same reason, you shouldn’t judge a project that replaces “blacklist” since you probably don’t know their migration cost as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Google will remove the usage of “blacklist” in Chrome and it spurred some discussions. I’m a bit surprised to see a lot of people laughed at it. I support this move. Here is my reasoning: Assume you’re a developer, if you start writing a new project today and need this allow\/block functionality, would you use… Continue reading Removal of “Blacklist” in Software<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Q1al-39k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}