Microsoft introduces a new Tracking Prevention feature to its news Chromium-based Edge web client.
Tracking Prevention is currently available in Microsoft Edge Insiders preview builds.
It offers better transparency and control over the users online data.
This Tracking Prevention feature is only available for trying byMicrosoft Edge Insiders preview buildsnow.
Due to a build issue, macOS now cannot try the Canary release of Edge.
But the Tracking Prevention will be available in next update to the Canary channel on macOS.
How Does Edge Tracking Prevention Work?
They use this way to collect the sites users visited and the content they are interested in.
Firefox Enhanced Tracking Prevention feature is turned on by default in spring 2019.
Microsoft Edge Tracking Prevention works in a similar way as Firefox tracking prevention.
Generally a tracker will access previously stored tracking information and store new tracking information in tracking process.
The mechanism of Edge Tracking Prevention is a little bit complicated.
This new Tracking Prevention feature consists of three main components: Classification, Enforcement, and Mitigations.
Microsoft adds a new component Trust Protection Lists to Microsoft Edge.
This component includes the latest information that domains track the users on the website.
This component is helpful with sourcing details to identify the tracker and update the lists for users.
Microsoft Edge Tracking Prevention feature enforces the block with two measures: Restrict storage access, block resource loads.
The Tracking Prevention will also block a loading tracking resource before the request reaches to the data pipe.
Moreover, its very hard to balance the privacy protection and tracking prevention.
How to Enable Tracking Prevention in Microsoft Edge?
But testers can now enable it to try the tracking prevention feature in Edge.
Then poke the drop-down arrow and chooseEnabled.
After that, clickRelaunch Nowto close Microsoft Edge surfing app and relaunch Microsoft Edge.
