Review Edge site permissions, third-party cookie controls, and tracking protection. Reduce unnecessary website access while preserving logins, payments, and essential web functionality.
Review **Microsoft Edge** site permissions and tracking protection to limit unnecessary access to your camera, microphone, location, and browsing data. These controls reduce selected tracking but do not make browsing anonymous or prevent every form of fingerprinting.
Open Edge and navigate to its About page through **Settings > About Microsoft Edge**. Let the browser check for available updates and restart if required. A supported, patched browser is a more important baseline than aggressive privacy settings alone.
Open **Settings > Cookies and site permissions** and review location, camera, microphone, notifications, pop-ups, automatic downloads, and other permissions. Set unnecessary access to Ask or Block where supported. Websites that depend on a blocked permission may stop working as intended.
Open the relevant permission category and review sites listed under allowed or blocked exceptions. Remove access for domains you no longer trust or use. Removing an exception may cause a site to prompt for permission again or lose a feature.
Open **Settings > Privacy, search, and services** and review Tracking prevention. Choose the strongest level that still supports your essential websites, then test your normal sign-in and payment workflows. Stricter prevention can break embedded content, analytics-dependent functions, and some authentication flows.
Inspect third-party cookie controls and options for clearing site data when Edge closes. Blocking third-party cookies can reduce cross-site tracking but may interrupt embedded services, federated logins, and shopping carts. Clearing all cookies on exit also signs you out of sites that rely on persistent sessions.
Open your regular email, school or work portal, payment provider, and other important sites. Test sign-in, downloads, media playback, and embedded content. If a function breaks, identify the relevant site permission or tracking exception before changing other settings.
Open the relevant Site permissions page, check the site's exception, and confirm Windows also allows Edge to use the device.
Review third-party cookie restrictions and tracking prevention. Add a narrow site-specific exception if necessary, then reload the sign-in flow.
Test a less restrictive tracking prevention level or add a site-specific exception if supported. Keep the global protection setting as strict as your essential sites allow.
No. Tracking prevention limits certain tracking techniques; it is not an IP-masking or anonymity service.
Block access that is not needed, but allow essential features such as video calls or location navigation when you choose to use them.
The permission may have been reset, the site may use a different domain, or browser data may have been cleared.
Return to Edge Settings > Cookies and site permissions to restore the relevant site's access. Revisit Privacy, search, and services to restore the previous tracking prevention or cookie setting. Reload the affected website and sign in again if needed.
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