The word “whitelist” is correct and usable in written English.
It’s a noun that means a list of people or things that have been approved or accepted as acceptable or legitimate. For example, “The company has a strict whitelist of employees it approves for promotions.”.
Eyeo, for its part, argues that the scheme lets publishers make at least some money, and that it does need some way of covering the cost of maintaining the whitelist.In two cases so far, German courts have sided with Eyeo, and ruled that its product and its business model are legal because users are informed about the whitelist before installing the software.
Some internet firms, including Google, are said to have cut a deal with Eyeo to have their ads included on the firm's "whitelist" (Google declined to comment on this).
A national whitelist that listed all permitted sites would also be unworkable.
The idea, as with Goodmail, is that this whitelist eventually grows so large that spammers will in effect be quarantined, as though they were on a blacklist.
There are two basic options: a blacklist, in which everything not on the list is allowed, and a whitelist, in which only web pages on the list will be shown.
A whitelist is impractical, given the sheer size of the internet.
It has also developed "whitelisting" rules for its point-of-sale system, which will flag up any attempt to install software that has not been pre-approved.
Those lurking elsewhere can sometimes be sniffed out with privacy controls that both explain how local storage is being used and allow site-by-site blacklisting and whitelisting to prevent unwanted leftovers from littering the browser.
Google and Facebook, say, might have to pay the likes of Deutsche Telekom and Telefónica to get on to their whitelists.If that happened, the online firms would surely fight back.
The whitelisting programme allows the company to make money from the product, according to reports.
While I'm sceptical about this model, a broader whitelisting programme might work.
