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RequestPolicy for Firefox blocks all requests to other domains. I sometimes think it should do sub-domains too. When you use this you will see just how many a
by J_Darnley 14y ago
RequestPolicy for Firefox blocks all requests to other domains. I sometimes think it should do sub-domains too. When you use this you will see just how many assets websites load from or place elsewhere.
- chokma 14y agoIndeed, RequestPolicy, AdBlock+ and NoScript are the essential default plugins, both from a security and usability perspective. But sometimes the content will not load at all, because to show an article's text, the page uses Google's ajax, webfonts, a cdn, and the blog's master site @ wordpress.com or blogger.com etc. In that case, the content has to be really interesting for me to allow all those third-party connections.
- J_Darnley 14y agoYes. If a website won't even show basic page text without allowing various things I will leave immediately.
- kibwen 14y agoI adore RequestPolicy in principle, but after a year I just couldn't take it anymore. NoScript was better, it took me five years until I was fed up with constantly whitelisting every new site I visited and playing guess-which-sites-are-essential roulette. I really, really wish there existed versions of RequestPolicy and NoScript with large and comprehensive default whitelists. Until that day, Ghostery is all that I have the patience to put up with.
- sp332 14y agoCheck the RequestPolicy preferences page; you can do sub-domains. Fair warning: it's a lot more fiddly to configure your whitelist that way.
- J_Darnley 14y agoThanks. I'll try and remember this next time I think I need it.