From ComputerWorld: Microsoft is the latest browser also-ran to tackle Google's leader, Chrome, by introducing anti-tracking expertise to Edge.
Calling the feature "tracking prevention," Microsoft described it in terms much like those used by rivals Mozilla and Apple, which have cookie blockers in place in their browsers, Firefox and Safari. "Tracking prevention is designed to protect you from being tracked by websites that you aren't accessing directly," wrote Brandon Maslen, senior software engineer, and Ryan Cropp, software engineer, in a June 27 post to a company blog.
Because Microsoft's just started to show its anti-tracking talents to users, it's hidden them behind an option flag; in Edge, it's reached by typing edge://flags in the address bar. (Edge's Chromium roots show here; the chrome://flags command has been long known to hard-core Chrome users.) Once the user has selected "Enabled" as the setting for the "Microsoft Edge tracking prevention" option, then relaunched the browser, Edge will begin stymying trackers.
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