How to manage site permissions on the new Microsoft Edge

Nowadays, almost every website you visit wants some sort of access to your device, such as access to push notifications to alert you about new content, location to show local information, camera, and microphone for video calls, and they even want permission to store data to personalize your experience.

Although trying to control permissions for every site can be overwhelming, if you’re using the new version of Microsoft Edge based on the Chromium engine, you can easily decide the level of access that every website has as they render in the browser to improve privacy and security on Windows 10.

In this Windows 10 guide, we’ll walk you through the steps to manage site permissions with the Chromium version of Microsoft Edge.

• How to set permissions per website on Microsoft Edge
• How to manage permissions for all websites on Microsoft Edge
• How to allow or block cookies and site data on Microsoft Edge
• How to allow or block location detection on Microsoft Edge
• How to allow or block camera and microphone access on Microsoft Edge
• How to allow or block site notifications on Microsoft Edge
• How to allow or block site media autoplay on Microsoft Edge

How to set permissions per website on Microsoft Edge

To set permissions for a website on Microsoft Edge Chromium, use these steps:

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Navigate to the website you want to manage.
3. Click the Lock icon next to the website link in the address bar.
4. Click the Site permissions option.

1. Use the drop-down menus to allow or deny permissions (such as location, camera, microphone, notifications, Adobe Flash, etc.).

1. (Optional) Click the Reset permissions option.

1. Click the Reset button to restore the default settings.
2. Click the Refresh button on the site to apply the changes.

Once you complete the steps, the website will only have access to the permissions you specified.

Changing site permissions

If you want to modify previously configured permissions for a particular website, use these steps:

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Navigate to the website you want to manage.
3. Click the Lock icon next to the website link in the address bar.
4. Use the drop-down menus to change the permissions.

1. Click the Refresh button on the site to apply the changes.

After you complete the steps, the new settings will apply to the site.

How to manage permissions for all websites on Microsoft Edge

To manage site permissions globally on Chromium Edge, use these steps:

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Click the Settings and more (three-dotted) button from the top-right.
3. Click on Site permissions.
4. Select the permission you want to control.

1. Turn on the Ask before accessing toggle switch to prevent websites from accessing your device information without your consent.

1. Under the “Block” section, click the Trash button to restore the default setting for the domain.
2. Under the “Allow” section, click the Trash button to restore the default setting for the domain.

Once you complete the steps, you may need to repeat steps No. 4 through 7 to adjust different permissions.

Although the above instructions outline the steps to control the access level, depending on the permission you want to control, you will have different options. For example, Cookies and site data, Camera, Microphone, Notifications, JavaScript, Images, Pop-ups and redirects, Background sync, Automatic downloads, Unsandboxed plugin access, Clipboard, and Payment handlers, all of them have additional customizable options.

How to allow or block cookies and site data on Microsoft Edge

To customize cookies and site data permissions for websites, use these steps:

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Click the Settings and more (three-dotted) button from the top-right.
3. Click on Site permissions.
4. Click the Cookies and site data option.

1. Turn on the Allow sites to save and read cookie data toggle switch.

1. (Optional) Turn on Clear cookies and site data when you quit Microsoft Edge toggle switch.
2. (Optional) Turn on Block third-party cookies toggle switch to prevent websites from using your online activities to target you with ads.
3. Under the “Block” section, click the menu (three-dotted) button and select the Remove button to restore the default settings for the domain.

1. (Optional) Under the “Block” section, click the Add button to block websites from saving and reading cookies

1. Under the “Clear on exit” section, click the menu (three-dotted) button and select the Remove button to restore the default settings for the domain.
2. (Optional) Under the “Clear on exit” section, click the Add button to define the websites that Microsoft Edge will clear cookies upon closing the browser.
3. Under the “Allow” section, click the menu (three-dotted) button and select the Remove button to restore the default settings for the domain.
4. (Optional) Under the “Allow” section, click the Add button to specify the websites allowed to save and read cookies information.Quick note: You should only use this option if you were disabling the Allow sites to save and read cookies data option.

After you complete the steps, only the websites you specified will have permission to save and read cookies data.

Viewing and deleting site cookies

To view or delete cookies stored on your browser, use these steps:

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Click the Settings and more (three-dotted) button from the top-right.
3. Click on Site permissions.
4. Click the Cookies and site data option.

1. Click the See all cookies and site data option.

1. Use the search box to find a specific cookie.
2. Click the right arrow button to get more details about the cookie.

1. Click the Trash button to delete it.

1. (Optional) Click the Remove all button.
2. Click the Clear button

Once you complete the steps, you’ll be able to see and remove one or all the cookies stored on your instance of Microsoft Edge.

How to allow or block location detection on Microsoft Edge

To allow or block location access per website on Microsoft Edge, use these steps:

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Navigate to the website you want to manage location settings.
3. Click the Lock icon next to the website link in the address bar.
4. Click the Site permissions option.

1. Use the “Location” drop-down menu to allow or deny permission.

After you complete the steps, you may need to repeat the steps to control location access for other websites.

Managing site location access

To manage website access to your location, use these steps:

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Click the Settings and more (three-dotted) button from the top-right.
3. Click on Site permissions.
4. Click the Location option.

1. Turn on the Ask before accessing toggle switch.

1. Under the “Block” section, click the Trash button to restore the default setting for the domain.
2. Under the “Allow” section, click the Trash button to restore the default setting for the domain.

After you complete the steps, only sites in the “Allow” list will be able to access your location automatically. If the site isn’t in either list, then you’ll get a prompt to allow or deny the access.

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How to allow or block camera and microphone access on Microsoft Edge

To allow or block website access to your device camera and microphone, use these steps:

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Navigate to the website you want to manage location settings.
3. Click the Lock icon next to the website link in the address bar.
4. Click the Site permissions option.

1. Use the “Camera” or “Microphone” drop-down menu to allow or deny permission.

Once you complete the steps, only the websites you specified will be able to access the device camera and microphone. If the site isn’t in either of the lists, then you’ll get a prompt to allow or deny the access.

Managing site camera and microphone access

To control access to camera and microphone on Microsoft Edge, use these steps:

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Click the Settings and more (three-dotted) button from the top-right.
3. Click on Site permissions.
4. Click the Camera or Microphone option.

1. Use the drop-down menu and select the default device.
2. Turn on the Ask before accessing toggle switch.

1. Under the “Block” section, click the Trash button to restore the default setting for the domain.
2. Under the “Allow” section, click the Trash button to restore the default setting for the domain.

After you complete the steps, only the websites in the “Allow” list will have access to the camera and microphone. If the domain isn’t in either list, then you’ll see a prompt to allow or deny the access.

How to allow or block site notifications on Microsoft Edge

To allow or block site notifications on Microsoft Edge, use these steps:

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Navigate to the website you want to manage location settings.
3. Click the Lock icon next to the website link in the address bar.
4. Click the Site permissions option.

1. Use the “Notifications” drop-down menu to allow or deny permission.

Once you complete the steps, only the sites you specified will be able to push notifications. If the website wants to display notifications, and it’s not on the allow or block list, then you’ll see a prompt to allow or deny the access.

Managing site notifications permissions

To manage notifications permissions for websites on Chromium Edge, use these steps:

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Click the Settings and more (three-dotted) button from the top-right.
3. Click on Site permissions.
4. Click the Notifications option.

1. Turn on the Ask before accessing toggle switch.
2. Under the “Block” section, click the menu (three-dotted) button and select the Remove button to restore the default settings for the domain.

1. (Optional) Under the “Block” section, click the Add button to block websites from pushing notifications.
2. Under the “Block” section, click the menu (three-dotted) button and select the Remove button to restore the default settings for the domain.
3. (Optional) Under the “Allow” section, click the Add button to permit site to push notifications.

After you complete the steps, sites in the “Allow” list will be able to push notifications, but the domain isn’t in either list, then you’ll receive a prompt to allow or deny the access.

How to allow or block site media autoplay on Microsoft Edge

To allow or limit sites from playing media automatically on Microsoft Edge, use these steps:

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Click the Settings and more (three-dotted) button from the top-right.
3. Click on Site permissions.
4. Click the Media autoplay option.

1. Use the Control if audio and video play automatically on sites drop-down menu to Allow or Limit access.

Once you complete the steps, websites will be able to play media automatically, depending on your configuration.

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We’re focusing this guide on Windows 10, but the above instructions will also work for Microsoft Edge on Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and macOS.

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Earlier days reading content from any website was easier without privacy issues. However, things have been changed considerably and nowadays websites ask for different permissions for showing relevant content. Though this is useful to get correct data you need, most users are not comfortable in sharing their personal data with unknown websites. In this article, we will explain how to manage website permissions in Microsoft Edge browser and change the previously granted permissions to protect your privacy.

Examples of Website Permissions

Depending upon the purpose, here are some of the examples of permissions websites need:

• Video conferencing sites need access to your camera for connecting to video calls.
• Almost all websites set cookies in the browser for tracking user behavior. Some geographical locations like in Europe, it is a legal requirement (GDPR) for the website owner to get consent from the visitor for using such cookie.
• Site owners ask permission to send push notifications so that you can get latest alerts from your browser.
• Websites that offer location-based services like maps, need access to your location to offer local relevant details.

Google Search is the best example where you can find Google automatically detects your IP address and show the location at the end of search results.

You also have an option to manually update the location by clicking on the “Update Location” link. Now, you will see Google asking permission to know your location as shown below. Allowing this will give permission to Google to access your precise location and show customized results.

Note that the search results and advertisements showing in the search pages will change based on your IP address and the location if you set.

Manage Website Permission in Microsoft Edge

You have the following two options to manage permissions in Edge browser:

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• Manage single site permissions
• View and manage all permissions

Note that managing file permissions in Windows is something different than managing permissions in Edge. Check the article on how to set Windows file permissions if you are looking for the settings to control file access.

View Single Website Permission

Many websites ask permission to send push notifications when you open them in Edge. Let us say, you have given permission to a site for sending notification by clicking on the “Allow” button when you first opened the site. Or you allowed the notifications from the bell icon showing in the browser’s address bar. However, later you find the site sends too many notifications which are irrelevant to your interest. Now you have changed your mind and wanted to change the website permission to stop the push notification.

Open the site in Edge and click on the padlock icon showing next to the website’s address. Here, you can see the permissions granted to the site under “Permissions for this site” section. Edge also allows you to allow or block notifications by selecting the option from the dropdown against “Notifications” option.

You can click on the “Cookies” to view allowed and blocked cookies from the website. On our site, we use Google Analytics for counting website visitors and hence you will see cookies related to that. If you find any suspicious cookies set by the website, you can select it and click on “Block” button to disable it. Likewise, you can also select “Clear upon exit” option under “Blocked” section to delete the cookie when you close the site in Edge tab.

Like cookies, you can click on the “Trackers” to manage the details of the trackers allowed or blocked by Edge.

View All Website Permission in Edge

Over the period, you might have allowed many websites and granted different permissions. It is difficult to remember all the website addresses and open them one by one to see the permissions as explained above. Fortunately, you can view all permissions and review them to keep or delete from Microsoft Edge settings page.

• Press “Alt + F” shortcut keys or go to “Settings and more” menu showing as three horizontal dots on the top right corner of Edge browser.
• Select “Settings” menu and go to Edge settings page.

• Click on the “Cookies and site permission” tab from the sidebar.
• This section contains options to manage cookies and data stored and site permissions.

Manage Cookies and Data Stored

Click on “Manage and delete cookies and site data” option to view all blocked and allowed cookies in Edge along with additional options to globally manage them. For example, you can completely block cookies by disabling “Allow sites to save and cookie data” option. However, this is not recommended as many sites will simply stop working without cookies. On other hand, you can enable “Block third-party cookies” option to prevent websites tracking across the browser.

Click “See all cookies and site data” option to view all cookies stored in your browser. We recommend deleting all third-party cookies by clicking “Remove third-party cookies” button. If you see Edge is very slow, then click on “Remove all” option to cleanup your browser.

Site Permissions

Site permissions section contains three sub-sections to manage all previously granted permissions in one place:

All sites

Find the list of all websites that you have provided permissions. This section will show the summary of permissions below each site for you to understand quickly. However, you can click on the site to view the details in edit mode and change the permissions if required. This is similar to managing individual site permission as explained above. The only difference is that you can view more details and have an option to reset all permissions with single click.

Recent activities

Here you can find the list of websites for which you have recently changed permissions. This is useful when you want to immediately revert a permission that you have mistakenly given to a website. Click on a site from the list and change the required permission, you can also reset all permission at once.

All permissions

This is useful section where you can enable or disable permissions on Edge browser that are applicable across the sites. You can find the current status of each permission and you can click on the section to change the setting. For example, if you do not want any site to automatically download files then click on “Automatic downloads” option.

The default option is to force the site asking your permission before downloading the files. However, you can completely block or allow the automatic downloads from sites. You can also view if any sites have been previously granted for automatic download permission and revoke it from the list.

Edge offers to control the following permissions globally. We recommend you to go through these permissions and enable or disable them as you need. In most cases you can simply block the permission like ads, notifications, camera, microphone, pop-ups, etc. For some cases like downloads and location, you can choose the site to ask for your confirmation so that you can decide as and when depending on the purpose. If you wrongly given permission or wanted to change something at any point of time, you can go to “All Sites” section and change the site’s permission.

Final Remarks

Website permissions in Microsoft Edge allow you to control behavior of sites you visit and understand what access they need. Effectively managing these permissions not only help to improve your browsing experience but also protect your privacy.

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