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132 lines
3.5 KiB
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# Microsoft Edge Privacy Settings
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Go to Settings
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## Profiles
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#### Microsoft Rewards
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- Earn Microsoft Rewards in Microsoft Edge: Off
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#### Personal info
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- Save and fill basic info: Off
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- Save and fill custom info: Off
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#### Passwords
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- Offer to save passwords: Off
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- Automatically save passwords: Off
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- Autofill passwords: Off
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NOTE: Never save passwords in browsers. Use a password manager instead. Check out [recommendations, alternatives & reviews](https://github.com/the-weird-aquarian/privacy-settings#recommendations-alternatives--reviews).
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#### Payment info
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- Save and fill payment info: Off
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- Cards you've saved on this device: Remove any payment info if added
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NOTE: Never save payment info in browsers. A password manager can be used to also save payment information.
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#### Share browsing data with other Windows features
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- Share browsing data with other Windows features: Off
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## Privacy, search, and services
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#### Tracking prevention
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- On
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- Strict
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#### Privacy
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- Send "Do Not Track" requests: On
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- Allow sites to check if you have payment methods saved: Off
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#### Optional diagnostic data
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- Help improve Microsoft products by sending optional diagnostic ata about how you use the browser, webstes you visit, and crash reports: Off
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#### Search and service improvement
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- Help improve Microsoft products by sending the results from searches on the web: Off
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#### Personalization and advertising
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- 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
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#### Security
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- Website Typo Protection: On
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- Use secure DNS to specify how to lookup the network address for websites >
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- On
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- Choose a service provider > NextDNS/Cloudflare or provide URL for other secure DNS from [this list](https://www.privacyguides.org/dns/)
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Example: For Quad9, enter https://dns.quad9.net/dns-query
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- Enhance your security on the web >
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- On
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- Strict
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#### Services
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- Show suggestions to follow creators in Microsoft Edge: Off
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- Get notifications of related things you can explore with Discover: Off
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- Enhance images in Microsoft Edge: Off
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#### Address bar and search
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- Show me search and site suggestions using my typed characters: Off
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- Search engine used in address bar: DuckDuckGo or add any other privacy respecting search engine from Manage search engines.
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- 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)
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## Sidebar
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- Personalize my top sites in customize sidebar: Off
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#### App and notification settings
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- Bing Chat >
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- Automatically open Bing Chat in the sidebar: Off
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- Page Context: Off
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- Search > Automatically open Search: Off
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## Start, home, and new tabs
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#### New tab page
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- Preload the new tab page for a faster experience: Off
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## Cookies and site permissions
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#### Manage and delete cookies and site data
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- Block third party cookies: On
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- Preload pages for faster browsing and searching: Off
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#### Site permissions
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- Ads > Block on sites that show intrusive or misleading ads: On
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## Downloads
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- Ask me what to do with each download: On
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- Show downloads menu when a download starts: On
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## Languages
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- Use writing assistance: Off
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#### Share additional OS regional format
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- Share additional operating system region: Limited
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Open a new tab. Click the gear icon on right
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## Page settings
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- Layout: Custom
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- Show promoted links: Off
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- Background: Off, Your own image or Custom theme
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- Show greeting: Off
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- Content: Content off |