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Old 01-26-2014, 03:31 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by AnotherCat View Post
As I recall, for Windows 7 if you click the compatibility icon it will automatically add it to the list but a Win 7 user may need to confirm that (every machine here has been Win 8 for over a year now and I would have to set up a machine with Win 7 to test, but am pretty sure it was automatic).

As momtodogs says, Win 8.x no longer has the compatibility icon and one adds any sites needed manually (it offers the currently viewed site for adding with one click if one selects Tools>Compatibility view settings). That said, although I visit many sites, including security sensitive ones, the only presence in my compatibility list is MobileRead (for the library issue).

As an aside: Tracking Protection (introduced IE9 if I recall correctly, Firefox has a simplified version, Google's Chrome, unsurprisingly has none), if enabled, may block content from some websites collecting what some may consider private information and cause similar puzzlement. Again the list (downloadable lists are available) is user controlled and is latched On or Off by an icon. For IE10 onwards Tracking Protection is enabled by default and poses some problems for those who do not realise that.
As in, "Tell sites that I do not want to be tracked"? Chrome has this too, and unfortunately, it means nothing other than your browser sends a plea in the header, which the website is welcome to ignore.

There is also the third-party extension Adblock Plus which can stop a lot of scripts and cookies and ads and stuff from being displayed in your browser at all, hence "they" can't track your every move, etc. but it too is available for Chrome (and not IE. Or rather, there is a version, but it's somewhat crippled).

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And it seems Microsoft has based Tracking Protection (i googled it) off of Adblock Plus, as the Adblock Plus lists are being used directly. I wonder how well Tracking Protection compares against Adblock Plus for IE? Perhaps better, since Microsoft has access to the integration that otherwise relies on open-sourced browsers?
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