I 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.