Cómo ajustar la configuración de Edge para mejorar tu privacidad en línea

Esta guía te mostrará cómo ajustar la configuración del navegador Edge para reforzar tu privacidad en línea.

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8th October 2021
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Para acceder a las configuraciones, haz clic en el menú de tres puntos de la parte superior derecha y pulsa Configuración > Privacidad, búsqueda y servicios (Fig. 1), o escribe edge://settings/privacy en la barra de direcciones URL y haz clic en intro.

Fig. 1: Edge settings menu

Tracking prevention

Edge includes a basic tracking protection mechanism to prevent trackers from collecting data about you. To enable it, go to the Tracking prevention pane, and select Balanced protection (Fig. 2). You can also use Strict protection, but beware this may break some webpages.

Fig. 2: Sync settings

Privacy

When browsing the web, your browser may warn websites that you do not want to be tracked. Beware that not all websites respect this! For safer protection, please see our guide on installing an ad-blocker. Still, it's better to have this option turned on. Go to the Privacy pane and enable Send "Do Not Track" requests (Fig. 3).

Fig. 3: Privacy settings - DNT

Sharing diagnostic data

Similarly to other browser, the Edge browser collects diagnostics data to improve its service. This data can be very intimate and revealing and you might want to avoid it being shared and accessed. To prevent the data collection from happening, go to the Optional diagnostic data pane, and disable Help improve Microsoft products by sending optional diagnostics data about how you use the browser, websites you visit, and crash reports (Fig. 4). from online trackers.

Fig. 4: Diagnostics settings

Personalized web experience

To prevent Microsoft from serving you ads based on your web browsing habits, go to the Personalize your web experience pane and disable Improve your web experience by allowing Microsoft to use your browsing history from this account for personalizing advertising, search, news and other Microsoft services (Fig. 5).

Fig. 5: Personalized web experience settings

Services

Microsoft Edge uses web services to improve your browsing experience. To do so, it may share your personal data with Microsoft. If you are not comfortable with this, you can prevent such data sharing: go to the Services pane, and disable all options (Fig. 6). Then, click on Address bar and search and disable both options (Fig. 7).

Fig. 6: Services settings
Fig. 7: Address bar and search settings

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