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Microsoft Officially Launches the Microsoft Edge Built-In VPN Support

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Microsoft Edge finally gets a VPN feature

Edge getting a free VPN
   Edge getting a free VPN

Microsoft has just announced the Microsoft Edge Secure Network, which is essentially the built-in VPN feature that will be available in the company’s browser.

Currently available for a limited number of users who are running the Canary build of the browser, the VPN is powered by Cloudflare, and it is obviously supposed to protect your identity while browsing the web.

“Secure Network helps you protect your information by masking your device's IP address, encrypting your data, and routing it through a secure network (powered by Cloudflare) to a server that is geographically co-located so it’s harder for malicious actors to see your true location and what you’re doing. It also prevents your internet service provider from collecting your browsing data, like details about which websites you visit, and helps prevent online entities from using your IP address for profiling and sending you targeted ads,” Microsoft explains.

Free for all

The VPN feature will be available at no charge, though it will require a Microsoft Account for the time being.

The software giant, however, explains that the MSA is required not for collecting data but only to authenticate to the service and be provided with more free data.

“During this preview phase Secure Network requires users to be signed into the browser with their Microsoft account. Sign-in is used solely to authenticate to the service and ensure you’re to receive more free data during the current period. No data about your user identity or account is sent over the Secure Network connection as part of this service. Additionally, limited diagnostic data may be ephemerally present on our partner’s servers for no more than 25 hours to help troubleshoot connection and performance issues, but is not persisted or directly associated with any given user,” it says.

At this point, there’s no ETA as to when the VPN feature could go live in production builds of Microsoft Edge.


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