When blocking a tracker, we aim to stop it from accessing previously stored tracking information and storing new tracking information. You can customize tracking prevention to your preferences by setting it to Strict, which blocks the majority of 3 rd party trackers, or Basic, which only blocks malicious trackers. The default tracking prevention setting is Balanced, which blocks 3rd party trackers and known malicious trackers for an experience that balances privacy and web compatibility. Click the dropdown and choose Enabled, then click the Relaunch Now button to close all Microsoft Edge windows and relaunch Microsoft Edge. In the address bar, enter edge://flags#edge-tracking-prevention to open the experimental settings page. Once you’re on the right build, you’ll need to manually enable the experiment. 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). There may be some bugs or site issues, but we want to get it into your hands to hear what you think.

For that reason, it’s currently behind an experimental flag and disabled by default. 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. 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 to offer personalized content when visiting other sites.

Whenever a website is visited, trackers from other sites may save information in the browser using cookies and other storage mechanisms. Tracking prevention is designed to protect you from being tracked by websites that you aren’t accessing directly. Tracking prevention will be available in the next update to the Canary channel on macOS.)

(Note: Today’s Canary release is not currently available for macOS due to a build issue. Microsoft Edge Insiders can now try out tracking prevention by enabling the experimental flag on Microsoft Edge preview builds starting with version 77.0.203.0 (today’s Canary channel release). We initially demoed this feature at Build 2019 as one of the concepts we’re exploring to offer greater transparency and control over your online data. Today, we’re releasing an experimental preview of tracking prevention for Microsoft Edge.

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