A new report exposes ten Microsoft Edge dark patterns across Windows and Bing that steer users away from competing web browsers.
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Windows 11 accelerated launch is in testing to speed up Microsoft Edge startup, with an API that other developers can request.
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Microsoft has demonstrated Edge updates without restarts, but the feature is still a prototype. Here is what users and IT teams can enable today.
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Chrome 158 drops XSLT on November 17, which can break RD Web Access on Windows Server. See the timeline and Microsoft's interim fixes.
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A new BPFDoor backdoor variant and the AVERAT implant hide on telecom edge devices by posing as mail traffic. See how they work and how to hunt them.
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Prepare for the Microsoft Edge IE mode retirement by 2029. Learn how to migrate your legacy applications and modernize your enterprise infrastructure today.
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Microsoft is beginning the retirement of Manifest V2 (MV2) extensions in Edge this month, with consumer completion targeted for the end of 2026 and managed-enterprise deprecation in early 2027.
Microsoft says that change is justified because 95% of the most-used MV2 extensions in the Edge Add-ons store have already moved to Manifest V3 (MV3). It counted 58 MV2 extensions with “meaningful usage,” only three of which lack a publicly available MV3 alternative.
Starting this month, some Edge users will see warnings in edge://extensions and on Edge Add-ons store pages. Over the following months, MV2 extensions will be disabled by default.
This shift mostly affects privacy tools that modify requests, headers, redirects, or responses. MV2 extensions will need to be redesigned or lose particular features. Extensions relying on persistent background activity must also adapt to MV3’s service worker lifecycle model.
The change affects some well-known privacy and content-blocking extensions. Among them is the classic version of uBlock Origin, one of the most popular ad blockers for Edge, with more than 13 million installs.
The change is intended to improve security and performance. MV3 replaces some long-running background code and broad request-interception behavior with more constrained, declarative mechanisms. But those constraints also remove capabilities that sophisticated privacy, content-blocking, and request-modifying extensions relied on.
Several developers have complained about the challenges of adapting to MV3. One of the main issues is the limit on the number of rules a browser extension can include.
The rules must fit within browser-defined ceilings. Chrome documents a guaranteed minimum of 30,000 static rules, a maximum of 100 declared static rulesets with 50 enabled at once, 5,000 session rules, and limits on regular-expression rules.
This does in no way mean that Microsoft is banning ad blockers. They simply need to find different ways to remain effective.
At Malwarebytes, we’ve already gone through the process of adapting our free Browser Guard extension to MV3 and came out better than we went in.
So, while Manifest V3 introduced meaningful improvements to browser security, it also created real challenges for security tools like Browser Guard.
Rather than scaling back, the Browser Guard team rebuilt its approach from the ground up, focusing on behavior, patterns, and faster response times. The result is protection that’s different under the hood, but just as committed to keeping you safe online.
You can download Browser Guard for Edge from the Edge Add-ons store.
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The UK Cyber Resilience Pledge gives organizations a 30/60/90-day checklist for NCSC alerts, supplier Cyber Essentials checks and board-level cyber governance.
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The paradox of edge security describes how technologies designed to strengthen network defenses can also create new vulnerabilities. Edge devices improve performance and support localized threat detection by processing data closer to its source, yet modern enterprise environments often operate thousands of distributed endpoints. This rapid expansion of edge infrastructure increases the number of systems..
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How modern age-verification laws, like the California Digital Age Assurance Act, dismantle the principle of data minimization by mandating the collection of sensitive personal data, effectively turning "don't know" into "must know" and knowledge into liability.
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