Friday, October 11, 2024

Privacy In Your Browser

In this article, we will describe how to clear all cookies in your browser and access privacy settings. The browsers we will cover are:

Microsoft Edge

Clearing cookies:

Add: edge://settings/privacy to your address bar and hit enter. You will see below privacy hub.

Screenshot of the privacy settings of the Microsoft Edge browser

Go to Clear browsing data > Clear browsing data now > Choose what to clear.  For best results, we suggest clearing all-time cookies and other site data. If needed, you can clear all data. Please remember some cache will be deleted, therefore you need to log in again. Maybe a good time to check how strong your password actually is!

Screenshot of the privacy settings in the Microsoft Edge browser

Firefox

Clearing cookies:

Add: about:preferences#privacy to your address bar and hit enter. You will see below privacy hub.

Screenshot of privacy settings for Firefox browser

Go to History > Clear history…   For best results, we suggest clearing all-time cookies and other site data. If needed, you can clear all data. Please remember some cache will be deleted, therefore you need to log in again. Maybe a good time to check how strong your password actually is!

Screenshot of privacy settings for Firefox browser

As a bonus you can add about:protections to your dashboard to see Firefox’ privacy in action.

Screenshot of privacy settings in Firefox browser

Safari

Clearing cookies:

Go to the top toolbar and search for Safari > Clear history…

Clear history window in Safari browser

Go to Safari > Preferences > Privacy to find the privacy settings of Safari. Understand that blocking all cookies might break websites. So if something happens, you know where to look.

Safari browser privacy settings

Chrome

Clearing cookies:

Add: chrome://settings/cookies to your address bar and hit enter. You will see below settings.

Chrome browser cookie settings

Go to See all cookies and site data > Remove all  For best results, we suggest clearing all-time cookies and other site data. If needed, you can clear all data. Please remember some cache will be deleted, therefore you need to log in again. Maybe a good time to check how strong your password actually is!

Chrome browser privacy and cookies settings

Thanks to Complianz for allowing us to use their article.