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    LOCK DOWN YOUR BROWSER’S PRIVACY SETTINGS

    Feb 16, 2022 5 minutes

    Enable Super Duper Secure Mode in Edge

    Edge may not have earned a place in our top six private browsers, but Microsoft is making a welcome effort to boost its protection against hidden elements on web pages that compromise your privacy and security. As we reported in Issue 621 (page 11), this includes beefing up Edge’s ‘Tracking prevention’ feature with what Microsoft has dubbed Super Duper Secure Mode. This disables the web tool Just-In-Time (JIT), which is used to speed up JavaScript code on web pages, but can also be used by hackers to spread malware and steal your data.

    To enable the new mode in Edge, click the three-dot menu button in the top-right corner and choose Settings, then ‘Privacy, search and services’. Ensure that ‘Tracking prevention’ is switched on and select either Strict, to disable JIT on all

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