Microsoft Edge's Scareware blocker is a local AI model designed to help users avoid annoying and dangerous full screen pop-ups while browsing the web.

Microsoft's goal of giving users privacy protections is bumping right up against Google's goal of making ad money. According to Windows Latest, some users of the Microsoft Edge browser (which is ...

Microsoft Edge Dev received an update to version 110.0.1587.1 this week. The update adds a new option to the Android version of Edge that allows you to block an ad with a long press.

Microsoft has been testing an AI-powered scareware blocker feature for a while now. Starting with version 133, you can finally turn it on from Edge's Settings.

Microsoft Edge Is Testing A New Scareware Scam Blocker, How To Enable It by Alan Velasco — Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 02:45 PM EDT ...

Microsoft has started testing a new "scareware blocker" feature for the Edge web browser on Windows PCs, which uses machine learning (ML) to detect tech support scams.

Understandably, Microsoft wants to fight this — and it’s doing so with a new Scareware Blocker feature in Edge, which was first announced in November at the 2024 Ignite conference.

The tool uses a local AI model to detect when your browser enters full screen mode, a staple of scareware pop-ups, and then examines what you’re looking at to see if it resembles a scam. It’s ...