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Microsoft Edge Privacy Settings

Go to Settings

Profiles

Microsoft Rewards

  • Earn Microsoft Rewards in Microsoft Edge: Off

Personal info

  • Save and fill basic info: Off
  • Save and fill custom info: Off

Passwords

  • Offer to save passwords: Off
  • Automatically save passwords: Off
  • Autofill passwords: Off

NOTE: Never save passwords in browsers. Use a password manager instead. Check out recommendations, alternatives & reviews.

Payment info

  • Save and fill payment info: Off
  • Cards you've saved on this device: Remove any payment info if added

NOTE: Never save payment info in browsers. A password manager can be used to also save payment information.

Share browsing data with other Windows features

  • Share browsing data with other Windows features: Off

Privacy, search, and services

Tracking prevention

  • On
  • Strict

Privacy

  • Send "Do Not Track" requests: On
  • Allow sites to check if you have payment methods saved: Off

Optional diagnostic data

  • Help improve Microsoft products by sending optional diagnostic ata about how you use the browser, webstes you visit, and crash reports: Off

Search and service improvement

  • Help improve Microsoft products by sending the results from searches on the web: Off

Personalization and advertising

  • Allow Microsoft to use your browsing activity including history, favorites, usage and other browsing data to personalize Microsoft Edge and Microsoft services like ads, search, shopping and news: Off

Security

  • Website Typo Protection: On

  • Use secure DNS to specify how to lookup the network address for websites >

    • On
    • Choose a service provider > NextDNS/Cloudflare or provide URL for other secure DNS from this list

    Example: For Quad9, enter https://dns.quad9.net/dns-query

  • Enhance your security on the web >

    • On
    • Strict

Services

  • Show suggestions to follow creators in Microsoft Edge: Off
  • Get notifications of related things you can explore with Discover: Off
  • Show me search and site suggestions using my typed characters: Off
  • Search engine used in address bar: DuckDuckGo or add any other privacy respecting search engine from Manage search engines.
  • Search on new tabs uses search box or address bar: Address bar (if "Search box" is selected it will continue searching with Bing as the search engine)

Sidebar

  • Personalize my top sites in customize sidebar: Off

App and notification settings

  • Bing Chat >
    • Automatically open Bing Chat in the sidebar: Off
    • Page Context: Off
  • Search > Automatically open Search: Off

Start, home, and new tabs

New tab page

  • Preload the new tab page for a faster experience: Off

Cookies and site permissions

Manage and delete cookies and site data

  • Block third party cookies: On
  • Preload pages for faster browsing and searching: Off

Site permissions

  • Ads > Block on sites that show intrusive or misleading ads: On

Downloads

  • Ask me what to do with each download: On
  • Show downloads menu when a download starts: On

Languages

  • Use writing assistance: Off

Share additional OS regional format

  • Share additional operating system region: Limited


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Page settings

  • Layout: Custom
  • Show promoted links: Off
  • Background: Off, Your own image or Custom theme
  • Show greeting: Off
  • Content: Content off