While I'll avoid the political nature, I do find the terms are misused. In Firefox extensions, for security it's more intuitive (based on prior usage) for security-related extensions like an ad block. Anything on a whitelist is allowed (to include ads), and on the blacklist, it is not allowed (ads are blocked).
But I have another extension that just modifies the format of some pages to make them easier on my eyes. It took experimentation for me to realize that items on the whitelist are modified, while those on the blacklist are not. My intuition told me whitelists are for sites that are good the way there are, and sites that are hard on the eyes should be put on the blacklist.
It's not the worst mix-up in the world, and perhaps many smarter than myself would have no such confusion, but I think it could be avoid with words that mean what they do. There's plenty of room in the extension configuration to put "apply to these sites" or "transformed", as well as "allow original format" or "unchanged."
But I have another extension that just modifies the format of some pages to make them easier on my eyes. It took experimentation for me to realize that items on the whitelist are modified, while those on the blacklist are not. My intuition told me whitelists are for sites that are good the way there are, and sites that are hard on the eyes should be put on the blacklist.
It's not the worst mix-up in the world, and perhaps many smarter than myself would have no such confusion, but I think it could be avoid with words that mean what they do. There's plenty of room in the extension configuration to put "apply to these sites" or "transformed", as well as "allow original format" or "unchanged."