Skip to content

Remove use of whitelist/blacklist in sdk api #2640

@Ianfeather

Description

@Ianfeather

Summary

Could you update your API terminology for whitelistUrls and blacklistUrls to be more inclusive? This could be a breaking change or you could immediately accept additional properties alongside the existing ones and phase them out at the next scheduled release.

Motivation

The Code of Conduct says to use welcome and inclusive language and there's certainly more inclusive language that could be used for this part of the api. In addition, you're in the position of setting an example with the terminology that you choose to use. This post does a good job of detailing why the terms derive from prejudice: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/terminology-its-not-black-and-white

Additional Context

If allowList and denyList don't fit exactly, alternative API properties could be excludeUrls, includeUrls.

Thank you.

Prior conversation on other repositories:

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions