Microsoft Edge 79 Released With Enhanced Tracking Protection

Microsoft has implemented a series of changes to the tracking protection algorithm in its Edge web-browser, enhancing its blocking prowess while increasing compatibility. In a blog post on Tuesday, the company said the changes will provide a better balance betwixt spider web compatibility and blocking more types of trackers. "These changes resulted in Microsoft Edge 79 blocking ~25% more trackers than Microsoft Edge 78", said the company.

Powered largely by the Disconnect tracking protection lists, Microsoft Border's tracking protection functionality now too blocks new categories of trackers while exempting "sites and organizations that you lot have an ongoing and established human relationship with". The visitor believes the changes volition "ensure that the web services and applications you intendance about continue to work equally you wait across the web".

Co-ordinate to the Edge evolution team, "Leveraging site engagement also allows u.s.a. to merely unblock content that is likely to be of import to you and reflects your electric current needs". That being the case, the company says it took utmost care to make sure that adding new trackers to the block-list won't break disquisitional web functionalities such as federated login or embedded social media content.

As part of its plans to protect users from third-political party trackers beyond the web, Microsoft introducing tracking protection past default in its Edge web-browser earlier this twelvemonth. The company, back in June, released Edge preview build version 77.0.203.0 with the new tracking protection feature, although back then, it had to be turned on manually by enabling an experimental flag. According to the company, the feature protects users from third-party trackers across the web, thereby helping them with their privacy.