It’s completely up to the website if they want to honor that request or not. DNT does not, nor has it ever, forced websites to comply, but only informs them that you don’t want to be tracked. If you allow it, an exception will be added to the “Do Not Track” list, if you have DNT enabled. Not a new privacy feature, but a modification to an existing one, websites are now able to ask you if they can track your activity online. Note that overriding automatic cookie handling also requires you to explicitly choose to Accept, Block, or Prompt for first-party cookies as well, so any preexisting first-party cookie settings you had (like the more finely-tuned settings adjusted according to your selected Low/Medium/High Internet zone settings (from Internet Options, Privacy tab) will be overridden. It requires overriding automatic cookie handling, which can be a headache. If you have Windows 7, it’s still possible to block third party cookies, but it’s a much more cumbersome affair. Unfortunately, this feature is only available in IE11 on Windows 8. Third party cookie blocking allows you to block cookies from being inserted into you browser by third parties, like advertisers or malicious websites. Implemented a while ago on other browsers, IE has finally caught up. The only change in IE11 is that EPM is now turned on by default. This prevents any malicious code contained in the website from modifying your system files. Enhanced Protected Mode turned on by defaultįirst included in IE7, EPM (also called “sandboxing”) runs web pages in their own little world, isolating them from the rest of the computer. Note: Unfortunately, most of these new security features only work in Windows 8.
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