Temporarily allow cookies and site data in Microsoft Edge

Summary

Temporarily allow cookies and site data in Microsoft Edge to enable personalized browsing, website functionality, and improved online experience. You can manage cookie permissions, control how much site data is shared, and adjust Edge privacy settings anytime. This article explains how to temporarily allow cookies, manage tracking preferences, and remove stored site data in Microsoft Edge.

To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Edge lets you customize your level of tracking prevention with three different options if tracking prevention is enabled.

• Basic - This option allows most trackers across all sites, content and ads will likely be personalized, and sites will work as expected.

• Balanced (Recommended) - This option blocks trackers from sites you haven't visited, contents and ads will likely be less personalized, and sites will work as expected.

• Strict - This option blocks a majority of trackers from all sites, content and ads will likely have minimal personalization, and parts of sites may not work.

Sometimes, these privacy protections might cause parts of sites to not work correctly. Depending on your privacy settings and the content you interact with, you might see the following prompt when you visit a site, asking if you want to allow another site to access cookies and site data: 

If you allow this access, the content will work correctly. Otherwise, the content will continue to be blocked by your privacy settings.

If allowed, the requesting site can access its own cookies and site data while you are on the site where the prompt appeared. This allowance will be granted for 30 days from the time you first allowed it. After 30 days that allowance will automatically expire.  

These temporary allowances may allow requesting sites to track your activity across the web. You can remove these allowances at any time by:

1. Select Settings and more > Settings > Privacy, search, and services.

2. Select Cookies, then select See all cookies and site data.

3. Under Cookies and data stored for sites you have browsed, select the drop-down for the site you want to remove.

4. Select Delete icon.

For more information, view Manage cookies in Microsoft Edge.