RequestPolicy/requestpolicy — Issue #267: How to deal with ajax.googleapis.com?
Author: jsamuel
Created: 2011-12-22 19:03:33+00:00
State: open
Labels: extension

imported trac ticket
created: 2011-10-04 22:15:41
reporter: shabbyrobe

Many sites depend on jQuery served by google. Can a separate tab be added to requestpolicy to allow resources like this to be loaded from an alternative place? For e.g. I could host my own version of jQuery and point http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.2/jquery.min.js there instead.

I don't know that this is necessarily the solution (hence the vague ticket name, sorry about that), but RequestPolicy breaks websites left right and centre without ajax.googleapis.com whitelisted everywhere and then pow, they're tracking me again whether I like it or not.

I only installed RequestPolicy an hour ago and I'm already seeing three of my most visited websites (stackoverflow, slashdot and reddit) breaking.