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Edge Canary expands Scareware Blocker with new controls, blocking scam sites by default & sharing details with Defender ...
As the default browser in Windows, Edge offers a host of helpful features over Google Chrome. Here’s how to get the most out of the program.
Learn how to enable Scareware Blocker in Microsoft Edge to keep malicious software websites from loading when using Microsoft Edge.
Microsoft is rolling out "scareware blocker," which uses machine learning to identify a very specific and pervasive type of online scam.
Microsoft has detailed how it plans to prevent sites using SHA-1 certificates from loading on Edge and Internet Explorer 11 starting next year. The hashing function was deemed insecure in 2005.
There are some pre-requisites with blocking ads in Microsoft’s new browser. The most important one is that Windows 10 doesn’t include the ability for Edge to block ads by default.
Edge dealt with the vast majority of these phishing sites and came top by a country mile, blocking no less than 92.3% of the dodgy links.
If your Microsoft Edge is blocking Cookies then you may see a Cookies must be allowed message. Learn how to Allow or block Cookies in Edge browser.
To allow websites to show pop-up windows in Microsoft Edge, you have to disable the browser's pop-up blocker. Here's how you do that on desktop and mobile.
Microsoft's Edge browser will block ads that are deemed too intrusive, a new sign that browsers have begun competing to make the web better for you even if businesses might not like it. It's a ...