More security, however, means you'll receive a less robust and personalized experience compared to the Basic option. With the Microsoft-recommended Balanced approach, the browser blocks harmful trackers and those from sites you haven't visited. Under the Basic setting, Microsoft blocks trackers it thinks are potentially harmful while allowing others that are intended to personalize your web content and ads. These include Basic, Balanced, and Strict tracking. Rather than taking an all-or-nothing approach, the browser offers three levels of tracking prevention for which to choose. Microsoft Edge addresses good and bad web trackers in a way that other browsers do not.

Unfortunately, some web trackers can harm. By doing so, they can offer web content and ads customized for your benefit. These are those pesky tools that companies use to collect data about how we interact with a site. Microsoft Edge offers three levels of protection when it comes to web trackers. You'll see your newly created tab page each time you open a new tab. Microsoft Edge tab page customization (Image credit: iMore)

Regardless of the layout, you select, you can customize the tab screen further by turning the picture of the day on or off, removing the quick links, and changing how Microsoft News content on the page is viewed. In the remaining space, you'll see the top of the Microsoft News subpage.

Informational: With this layout, the search box is shrunk even further as are the quick links.

A slightly smaller Bing web search box is offered here along with the quick links to your most visited websites. However, instead of a white or black background (see below), it includes a photo of the day.

Inspiration: This layout looks very similar to Focused.

When clicked, your tab page extends down to a fully customizable Microsoft News subpage. At the bottom of the page is a link for Microsoft News.

You can add and delete more sites to this list with ease.

Focused: On this design, you'll find a large Bing web search box on this page followed by quick links to your most visited websites.

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