Introducing tracking prevention, now available in Microsoft Edge preview builds

Today, we’re releasing an experimental preview of tracking prevention for Microsoft Edge. We features of build microsoft edge as one of the concepts we’re exploring www.mcafee.com/activate product key to offer greater transparency and control over your online data. Microsoft Edge Insiders can www.mcafee/activate now try out tracking mcafee.com/activate product key prevention by enabling the experimental flag on Microsoft Edge preview builds starting with version 77.0.203.0 (today’s Canary channel release). (Note: Today’s Canary release www.mcafee.com/activate download is not currently www.mcafee.com/activate available for macOS due to a build issues. Tracking prevention will be available in the next update to the Canary channel on macOS.)

Tracking prevention is designed to protect you from being tracked by websites that you aren’t accessing directly. Whenever a website is visited, trackers from other sites may save information in the browser www.mcafee/activate using cookies and other storage mechanisms. This information may include the sites you’ve visited and the content you’re interested in, building a digital profile which can be accessed by organizations www.mcafee.com/activate product key to offer personalized content when visiting other sites.

The implementation in Microsoft Edge Insider preview builds is early and is likely to change as we hear from our customers and continue to test the feature. For that reason, it’s currently behind www.mcafee.com/activate an experimental flag and disabled mcafee.com/activate product key  by default. There may be some bugs or site issues, but we want to get it into your hands to hear what you think.

Turning on tracking prevention

To try out tracking prevention, you’ll need to be on a Microsoft Edge Insider preview build (version 77.0.203.0 or higher – or at least today’s Canary channel release). Once you’re on the right www.mcafee.com/activate download build, you’ll need to manually enable the experiment.

In the address bar, enter edge://flags#edge-tracking-prevention to open the experimental settings page. Click the dropdown and choose Enabled, then click the Relaunch Now button to close all Microsoft Edge windows and relaunch Microsoft Edge.

That’s it! Once the tracking prevention experiment is enabled, you can go to the Microsoft Edge privacy settings page www.mcafee/activate to control settings for tracking prevention. In the address bar, enter edge://settings/privacy and adjust www.mcafee.com/activate product key the settings as desired

The default tracking prevention setting is Balanced, which blocks 3rd party trackers and known malicious mcafee.com/activate product key trackers for an experience that balances privacy and web compatibility. You can customize www.mcafee.com/activate tracking prevention to your preferences by setting it to Strict, which blocks the www.mcafee.com/activate download majority of 3rd party trackers, or Basic, which only blocks malicious trackers.

How it works

When blocking a tracker, we aim to stop it from accessing previously stored tracking information and storing new tracking information. When tracking resources don’t add meaningful functionality to the page, we may even block them entirely. In order to do this, tracking prevention is made up of three main components.

• Classification: How we determine what is considered a tracking URL.
• Enforcement: The actions we take to protect our users from trackers.
• Mitigations: The mechanisms we use to www.mcafee.com/activate product key make sure your favorite sites still work, while offering strong default protection.

Classification

We’ve added a new component to Microsoft Edge, Trust Protection Lists, that contains the latest information mcafee.com/activate product key on which organizations may be trying to track users on the web. This component allows us to be flexible with

where we source details on what a tracker is and when we  www.mcafee/activate deliver updated lists  www.mcafee.com/activate download to our users.

To check if the URL is considered a tracker by our classification system, we check a series of hostnames, starting with an www.mcafee.com/activate exact match and then proceeding to check for partial matches for up to 4 labels beyond the top-level domain.

Example:

URL: https://a.subdomain.of.a.known.tracker.test/some/path

Tested hostnames:

• • a.subdomain.of.a.known.tracker.test
  • of.a.known.tracker.test
  • a.known.tracker.test
  • known.tracker.test
  • tracker.test

If any of those hostnames represents www.mcafee.com/activate a known tracker, we proceed with evaluating mcafee.com/activate product key enforcement actions www.mcafee.com/activate download intended to prevent www.mcafee/activate the user www.mcafee.com/activate product key from being tracked.