Black and White

  • I’ve used Wordfence for years and was happy with it.
    However, their “improvement” of renaming blacklist and whitelist
    to blocklist and allowlist can only be described as pathetic.
    I will now use a firewall made by people who spend time on
    improving the way their product works rather than wasting time
    worrying whether they might offend a minority.

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  • Thanks for your thoughts about Wordfence.

    This change was made, not for any political reasons, but rather for clarity’s sake. The industry is moving towards changing the terminology that is used for blocking and allowing and to avoid confusion going forward we are making the change as well. This has nothing to do with anyone’s personal beliefs. It was a decision that wasn’t made based on emotion. There is no huge PR push to show everybody how ‘correct’ Wordfence is. It’s about using the same terms the industry is moving to so we avoid confusion. End of story.

    You said “I will now use a firewall made by people who spend time on improving the way their product works rather than wasting time worrying whether they might offend a minority.” I appreciate your opinion and welcome you to go find any other security plugin that gives you as much as we do for free, because with all your bravado and self righteousness, you are a free user. You make demands of something that is freely given to you. Further, not only do I welcome you to go seek your security solution elsewhere I insist you do so. Your complaint is possibly the most childish and pettiest I have ever had to read. We give away roughly 85% of our features, full features in a free plug-in, backed with groundbreaking research and top-notch threat intelligence, we offer better protection, in my opinion, then anyone else in the security space for WordPress. All of these things we freely give apparently mean nothing to you. The proverbial straw that broke the camels back for you is a that we changed terminology in our plugin, just two words in the plugin, because we wanted to use language that is consistent in the security space. If changing 2 words is what causes you to leave Wordfence then we wish you well in whatever security solutions you choose in the future.

    Tim

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by WFSupport.

    @wfsupport – shouldn’t have even of wasted your time. Sucks that you put out a product that is well supported and provide top-notch service and someone gets all butthurt over something so silly as this and leaves a 1 star review.

    That said, I shall counter with my 5 star review ??

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