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To do that in the Edge browser, choose → → “Privacy and security.”

Turn off “Block pop-ups.”

InPrivate Browsing

If not everything you do on the web is something you want your

spouse/parents/boss/teachers to know about, then Microsoft has heard you.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION THE WISDOM OF
EDGE

How does the pop-up blocker know a good pop-up from a bad one,
anyway?

Edge generally tries to distinguish between pop-ups that are necessary

for a site to run and those that are dangerous or just annoying.

Although it doesn’t always succeed, there is some logic behind its
thinking. At the factory setting, some pop-ups get through. For

example, it allows pop-ups that contain “active content”—for example,
important features that are integral to the proper functioning of a
website: seating charts, flight-details screens, and so on.

Finally, if you already have a spyware infection, pop-ups may appear
constantly; the pop-up blocker isn’t designed to block spyware pop-ups.

You might be shocked to see the kinds of information your browser stores
about you. History entries aren’t the only tracks you leave as you browse.
Behind the scenes, it stashes your cookies, of course, plus passwords and

information you type into web forms (your name and address, for example).
Your hard drive also keeps cache files—graphics and text files that make up
the web pages themselves, stored to speed up their reappearance if you visit

those sites again.

Every modern browser offers a feature like Microsoft’s InPrivate browsing,
which lets you surf wherever you like within a single browser window.

Then, when you close that window, all your tracks are wiped out. No