How to add a site to Tracking Prevention Exceptions list in Edge browser

Tracking prevention helps you to block numerous trackers in Microsoft Edge. However, there may be certain sites that you may want to exempt. If so, you can do so by following the instructions in this post. This browser allows users to create an exception so that Edge can block trackers for all sites except the selected ones.

Internet or Web tracking is about tracking you and your activities on websites. When you visit a website, several trackers might track your activity – no matter which browser you are using. Thanks to the included settings provided in Microsoft Edge you can set the level of privacy protection.

Add a site in Tracking Prevention Exceptions in Edge

To add a site in Tracking prevention exceptions list in Microsoft Edge (Chromium), follow these steps-

1. Open the Microsoft Edge browser.
2. Click the three-dotted icon.
3. Select Settings.
4. Go to Privacy and services.
5. Click on Exceptions.
6. Click the Add a site button.
7. Write the site name and click the Add button.

To begin, you need to open the Microsoft Edge browser on your computer and click the three-dotted icon visible on the top-right corner.

After that, select Settings in the list and switch to the Privacy and services tab. Here you can find a button called Exceptions in the Tracking prevention panel.

After clicking this option, you need to click the Add a site button.

Next, enter the domain or site name in the box.

If your desired website has multiple subdomains (e.g., reviews.thewindowsclub.com, news.thewindowsclub.com, forum.thewindowsclub.com, etc.) and you would to add them all in the Exceptions list, you can enter the site like this-

[*.]thewindowsclub.com

Once done, you can follow this guide to verify if the Tracking prevention feature in Edge is working or not.

Remove sites from tracking prevention exceptions in Microsoft Edge

To remove sites from tracking prevention exceptions in Microsoft Edge, follow these steps-

1. Open the Microsoft Edge browser on your computer.
2. Type edge://settings/privacy/trackingPreventionExceptions in the URL bar and hit the Enter button.
3. Click the three-dotted icon.
4. Click the Remove button.

Open Edge, type edge://settings/privacy/trackingPreventionExceptions in the URL bar and hit the Enter button.

It will directly open the page that you need. Here you can find all the sites that were added to the exception list. If you want to remove a specific site, click the three-dotted icon, and select Remove option.

If you want to remove all the sites from the list, you can use the Remove all button.

That’s it!