About
RequestPolicy is a Firefox extension that improves the privacy and security of your browsing by giving you control over when cross-site requests are allowed by webpages you visit.
The idea for RequestPolicy was originally conceived in 2007 by Justin Samuel, initial proof-of-concept work (i.e. make sure I can selectively block requests using a Firefox extension) was done in early 2008, and major development started in September 2008. RequestPolicy was a full-featured extension ready for public usage in December 2008.
It is free software, licensed under the GPL v3.
The developer of RequestPolicy is Justin Samuel.
People Justin Samuel would especially like to thank include (but are not limited to):
- Beichuan Zhang for support, ideas, and feedback.
- Justin Cappos for support, ideas, and feedback.
- The Mozilla community for making a great and open browser.
- Giorgio Maone for making NoScript, the most important Firefox security extension (and a UI inspiration for RequestPolicy).
Other people whose feedback has been very helpful:
- John Hartman
- Christoph Langguth
- Robert Hansen (RSnake)
Translations of RequestPolicy have been provided by:
- BabelZilla.org
- myahoo (French translation)
- Team erweiterungen.de (German translation)
- Archaeopteryx (German translation)
- petruc (Portuguese [Brazilian] translation)
- Sumin Byeon (Korean translation)
- pedro arana matus (Spanish [Mexico] translation)