Turn on Ask before accessing (recommended). To allow Microsoft Edge to share your location with websites: Microsoft Edge won’t share your precise location with any website. Turn off Ask before accessing (recommended). In Microsoft Edge, select Settings > Cookies and site permission > Location Control if websites can access your location in Microsoft Edge To block Microsoft Edge from sharing your location with websites: Some websites may estimate your imprecise location using information like your IP address without Microsoft Edge asking your permission. Before sharing your precise location with a website, always review the site’s privacy policy. To allow the site to access your precise location, select Allow. When a site requests your precise location, you’ll see a prompt like this:
Websites can also use your imprecise location to provide results relevant to your general location, such as coffee shops nearby.īy default, the new Microsoft Edge will always ask your permission when a site wants to know your precise location. For example, if you share your precise location, mapping services can provide accurate driving directions. Your location data can be either precise or imprecise. Any cookies and site data stored by sites with such allowances are stored locally on your device and can be removed by selecting “Cookies and other site data” when you clear browsing data.Some websites can give you more accurate results when you share your location with them. These temporary allowances may allow requesting sites to track your activity across the web. You can remove these allowances at any time by going to Settings and more > Settings > Site permissions > Cookies and site data, or by selecting “Site permissions” when you clear browsing data. After 30 days that allowance will automatically expire. If allowed, the requesting site can access its own cookies and site data while on the site you were visiting when you the prompt appeared. This allowance will be granted for 30 days from the time you first allowed it. Otherwise the content will continue to be blocked by your privacy settings.
If you allow this access, the content will work correctly. To help protect your privacy, the new Microsoft Edge sets tracking prevention to balanced by default. For increased protection, you can switch your tracking prevention to strict or block all third-party cookies. Sometimes, these privacy protections might cause parts of sites to not work correctly.ĭepending on your privacy settings and the content you interact with, you might see the following prompt when you visit a site, asking if you want to allow another site to access cookies and site data:
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