Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Ivan Kolmychek on June 20, 2014 ·

Awesome addon, makes browsing way more fast, secure and private. Also saves some amount of system memory if you don't enable social widgets (Hello, Facebook! Hi, Twitter! etc).

The things, that I would like to see in it:
* blacklisting - I don't want to see some hosts I would not enable most of the time
* more custom banning - for example, on the most sites I want to enable specific 3rd level domain, but sometimes - to enable all of them along with 2nd level domain (cloudfront, for example). So, few additional allowment options would be nice. Example list:
"allow requests to somelongname.cloundfront.net"
"allow requests to cloudfront.net (with subdomains)"

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by saint23thomas on June 19, 2014 ·

I like the idea of this add-on. However, I am normally only guessing about what is, or is not, need on any given page or site. For that reason, I don't think it can succeed at providing increased privacy or security. At least, not in its current form.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Spinfx on June 15, 2014 ·

Agreed with most of the others - this is an excellent tool, and yes, adding a blacklist will be helpful as well.

I tried NoScript back in the day but it was too terse/cryptic for me - I love Request Policy's simple dropdown list of sites style. Not to mention apparently NoScript and others don't actually stop the browser from connecting to the ad servers, they simply don't run the scripts there - but the ad server would've already had your IP. Request Policy blocks all connections that aren't allowed, period. Surfing is way faster now.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Tim on June 13, 2014 ·

Great add-on. I would like to see a blacklist and a middle-click feature that let's you see a site's Security and Privacy info page like in NoScript.

This user has a previous review of this add-on.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by SweetLily on June 11, 2014 ·

Works exactly as it should, however, having a blacklist (like in NoScript) would make things easier over time, since it would be quicker to white list addresses that are safe, instead of having to look between the unsafe addresses every time.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Алексей Подгорный on June 6, 2014 ·

Отличное дополнение. Всё просто и надёжно.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Herbal Products on June 1, 2014 ·

Excellent add-ons thank you for sharing.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by [webserfer] on May 25, 2014 ·

Проект заглох?

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by FFbest on May 18, 2014 ·

can we build a black list that applies to every website, for certain cross-requests? it seems more useful than a whitelist, though I´m not quite sure..

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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

by Svinto on April 20, 2014 ·

There are 2 reasons I don't give this 5 stars:
- Rules are only global. Rules per site isn't supported.
- This addon leaks memory A LOT!

When I have Firefox running over 24 hours RequestPolicy have eaten more than 1 GB of memory.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by fxuser on April 20, 2014 ·

Essential security add-on which gives you control over the connections that websites try to make.
I am using the version 1.x beta which you can only get from the dev's webpage. this version is way easier to use than the regular version that you find here.
I hope the dev continues to develop this essential add-on.
As for possible improvements:
the chrome add-on http-switchboard has an interesting gui, it shows you what and where sth is requested (e.g. iframe), would be nice to have similar info in rp.
another improv. that I'd like to see would be the possibility to use wildcards anywhere in a rule/policy (in the current 1.x version it's only possible to use wildcards at the end of a domain name(e.g. example.com*).

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by _ztv on April 16, 2014 ·

Незаменимое дополнение, особенно выручает когда надо просмотреть кучу сайтов, получается намного быстрее без загрузки графики, ну а когда нужный сайт найден двумя щелчками мыши можно разблокировать показ изображений.
И еще масса опций.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Tires on March 2, 2014 ·

Mit Script-Blockern kann man zwar generell Scripts blocken, aber weder selektiv auf einer Web-Site noch andere Resourcen wie Tracking-Pixel etc. Ich wünschte mir sehnsüchtig ein Plugin, mit dem man einstellen kann domain-x.com darf domain-y.com laden. Jetzt hab ich es gefunden, das schließt nun die letzte systematische Lücke beim Browsen. Zusammen mit NoScript, Cookie Monster und AdBlock Plus ist nun Schluss mit lustig.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by bucket'o'clues on March 1, 2014 ·

This is a must have along with adBLOCK edge and (beef taco or ghostery) and NOscript and (greasemonkey or scriptish)

Perusing the interweb without any filtering is almost as foolish as using outdated sms texting when zero-cost xmpp texting is available for every device.

Even if you're a facetard you can learn to use RequestPolicy. Wisely tinker to restore essential functionality only

Hopefully the developer or a forker will ad subscription functionality to encourage more widespread usage. I'm confident many of the adblock subscription maintainers would happily release f/oss subscriptions for RequestPolicy -- especially for online finance and webmail should one's contracts with such be at least sensible with respect to the high value of user privacy and not be raping it for profit by default.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Elly Kleinman on Feb. 28, 2014 ·

Works like a charm!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Rob on Feb. 21, 2014 ·

Used this, but after a while switched it to accept all by default. have still kept it installed though ... wish there were a middle road (between allow all and bug me with a million notices) for a n00b like me :)

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Shamilka on Feb. 17, 2014 ·

Не знаю что случилось, но начиная с 27 версии RequestPolicy не позволяет загружаться вкладкам после восстановления сессии, а также не работают стрелки, то есть не работает переход на предыдущую страницу (-ы). К моему большому сожалению вынужден отказаться от данного расширения. Буду ждать, может исправят.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by joshi on Feb. 14, 2014 ·

only shows up some sites to block or allow. and i noticed this when i went to animefreak and only 2-3 requests show up instead of 8-9.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Chrystalline on Feb. 12, 2014 ·

Essential part of my web security. Allows me to choose which cross-site requests are permitted (and makes me wonder sometimes why these webmasters think they need to connect to so many other sites!) Doesn't interfere with NoScript specifically, but allowing scripts from the site is not the same as allowing connection to that site. To enable both, you have to choose both, but it doesn't seem to matter whether you enable scripts first or cross-site first. One of the first plugins I add to any new installation of Firefox.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Naku on Feb. 8, 2014 ·

this is one of the most important addons i use.
i use requestpolicy 1.0.1a1 from the authors website.

though there were no updates for a long time the addon still worked like a charme.
even after countless firefox updates.

but now it seems like the time has come where it doesnt work properly anymore.

if i update to firefox 27 it wont show most of the blocked requests that it did with firefox 26 and below.

seems like the author disbanded from this project and there will never be any updates.

too bad, now i am in a dilemma and dont know if i will stay on firefox 26 or update to firefox 27 and live without request policy.

maybe i will find another addon with the same ability that is working. at least i hope so.