Under this scenario, your surfing experience becomes even less personalized. With Strict tracking, Microsoft blocks harmful trackers and the majority of all trackers across most sites. Tracking Prevention (Image credit: iMore)

The trade-off is you receive a less robust and personalized experience compared to the Basic option. The Balanced approach, which Microsoft recommends for most users, blocks harmful trackers and those from sites you haven't visited. Under Basic, Microsoft blocks trackers it thinks are potentially harmful, while allowing others that are intended to personalize your web content and ads. At launch, Microsoft Edge offers three levels of tracking prevention, Basic, Balanced, and Strict.

Unfortunately, separating the two isn't always easy. The trackers, which collect data about how you interact with a site, includes a mix of good and bad actors. In Microsoft Edge, you get to decide how much free rein web trackers have while you're surfing.

While nothing is 100 percent secure, Microsoft is doing its part to push its Edge browser closer to absolute security through tracking prevention and a so-called SmartScreen tool. Hackers will always target web browsers and I don't expect that will ever change. Microsoft Edge tracking (Image credit: iMore)

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