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PersonalizationReportingEnabled

Allow personalization of ads, Microsoft Edge, search, news and other Microsoft services by sending browsing history, favorites and collections, usage and other browsing data to Microsoft

Supported versions

  • On Windows and macOS since 80 or later

Description

This policy prevents Microsoft from collecting a user's Microsoft Edge browsing history, favorites and collections, usage, and other browsing data to be used for personalizing advertising, search, news, Microsoft Edge and other Microsoft services.

This setting is not available for child accounts or enterprise accounts.

If you disable this policy, users can't change or override the setting. If this policy is enabled or not configured, Microsoft Edge will default to the user's preference.

Supported features

  • Can be mandatory: Yes
  • Can be recommended: No
  • Dynamic Policy Refresh: Yes
  • Per Profile: Yes
  • Applies to a profile that is signed in with a Microsoft account: Yes

Data type

  • Boolean

Windows information and settings

Group Policy (ADMX) info

  • GP unique name: PersonalizationReportingEnabled
  • GP name: Allow personalization of ads, Microsoft Edge, search, news and other Microsoft services by sending browsing history, favorites and collections, usage and other browsing data to Microsoft
  • GP path (Mandatory): Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge
  • GP path (Recommended): N/A
  • GP ADMX file name: MSEdge.admx

Example value

Enabled

Registry settings

  • Path (Mandatory): SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge
  • Path (Recommended): N/A
  • Value name: PersonalizationReportingEnabled
  • Value type: REG_DWORD

Example registry value

0x00000001

Mac information and settings

  • Preference Key name: PersonalizationReportingEnabled
  • Example value:
<true/>

See also