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Microsoft Edge Privacy Settings

Go to Settings

Profiles

Personal info

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

Passwords

• Offer to save passwords: Off

NOTE: Never save passwords in browsers. Use a password manager instead. Check out Additional Resources for more info.

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.

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

Personalize your web experience

• Improve your web experience by allowing Microsoft to use your browsing history from this acount for personalizing advertising, search, news and other Microsoft services: Off

Security

• Use secure DNS to specify how to lookup the network adress for websites > Choose a service provider > NextDNS, Cloudflare or provide URL for other secure DNS from this list
• Enhance your security on the web: On, Strict

Services

Address bar and search

• 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.

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

• Check Spelling: Off