{"id":311743,"date":"2019-06-28T08:32:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T06:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=311743"},"modified":"2019-06-28T08:41:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T06:41:39","slug":"microsoft-brings-tracking-prevention-to-new-edge-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/311743-microsoft-brings-tracking-prevention-to-new-edge-browser.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft brings tracking prevention to new Edge browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has followed in the footsteps of Mozilla by testing a new anti-tracking feature for its new Chromium-based Edge browser.<\/p>\n<p>The new feature allows users to manage the level of data which third-party trackers are allowed to collect about their browsing habits.<\/p>\n<p>The feature is currently available in the latest Canary release, and can be tested by typing &#8220;edge:\/\/flags#edge-tracking-prevention&#8221; into the address bar of the browser.<\/p>\n<p>Once enabled, users will be able to choose from three levels of tracker blocking &#8211; Basic, Balanced, and Strict.<\/p>\n<p>The basic version of tracker blocking is designed to block malicious trackers, while scaling up to Strict will block almost all third-party trackers but may risk breaking certain websites.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft previously demonstrated the feature at its Build 2019 event.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5vVrfYX2Rjg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/310815-how-to-check-if-a-wasp-is-stealing-your-airtime.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to check if a WASP is stealing your airtime<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has followed in the footsteps of Mozilla by testing a new anti-tracking feature for its new Chromium-based Edge browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":304864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[37194,30102,30126],"class_list":["post-311743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-chromium","tag-microsoft-edge","tag-tracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311759,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311743\/revisions\/311759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}