OlivawR: That RequestPolicy hasn't been updated since 2013 at least. There's a new active fork on Github. Adblock+ doesn't track you. It has those "acceptable ads" which can be disabled, but it doesn't track you. The reason why Adblock+ is eating lots of ram is because those filters the users subscribe to (only EasyList has 40000+ filters). On my machine Adblock is using less memory than NoScript and that's because I blacklist everything with NoScript and use AdBlock for those small annoying things.
CrashNBrn: RequestPolicy is updated regularly, its referred to as RequestPolicy continued.
If you go to the homepage you will see as such. As well as links to the GitHub page, and a version thats fully compatible with FF Nightly.
And the old version was working just fine, btw. You make your own permissions. I default to blocking everything and allowing what needs to be allowed to get the sites to function. It's a little bit of a pain every now and then, but once your rules are set you are good to go.
Some of the benefits of
RequestPolicy 1.0 is easier to maintain rules that permit you to use less specific domains like: *.cloudflare.net, which in 0.5x wasn't possible, so you had to keep allowing all those stupid RANDOMSTRING-CDN.cloudflare.net or randomString-aws.amazon.com etc.
See also:
Request Policy on github. The homepage unfortunately points in some cases/places to google-groups et al, which they haven't deprecated yet, but don't use for anything much anymore. I accidentally wound up there - when looking for an updated RP that would work with Nightly.
I'm sure most people will continue to use the behemoth juggernaut of Adblock/Ghostery/NoScript et al...
But you owe it to yourself to at least, if you care about your privacy, time, and stability of your browser to at least look at other options. Letting other people make your decisions for you and control your experience on the wild wild web... may not be the wisest thing.
PS Try searching "$887 Million Adblock Plus".
RequestPolicy Continued is developed by other guy, not by Justin, the original developer.