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Microsoft Unveils Enhanced Security Features for Internet Explorer 9
Dec 08, 2010
Microsoft has detailed new security features for Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) that will help users prevent sites from tracking their activity across browsing sessions. The new feature, set to launch with the first release candidate of IE9 early next year, uses a list to control which third-party elements can be blocked from tracking. These elements include advertisements and embedded widgets from specific providers. Dean Hachamovitch, head of Internet Explorer development, explained how this feature works on Microsoft's IE blog: "A Tracking Protection List (TPL) contains Web addresses (like msdn.com) that the browser will visit (or 'call') only if the user visits them directly by clicking on a link or typing their address. By limiting the calls to these websites and resources from other web pages, the TPL limits the information these other sites can collect. You can look at this as a translation of the 'Do Not Call' list from the telephone to the browser and we...
