edge browser does not maintain cookie settings

Question

Cookies settings are:  allow all cookies - allow third party cookies.

Other settings are: delete browsing data, cookies, cache when browser closes.

What are the RECOMMENDED settings for allow/disallow cookies, deleting browsing history, etc.?

I must admit that no matter how often I study the Privacy, etc. settings instructions, and try different ones

I do not understand them.  I will use the Microsoft recommended settings if I can learn what they are.

I don't wish to be continually asked by sites for 'cookies' permission and also to be unable to remain signed into my email services as I have always been.

Hope I have made my issue clear.  Using desktop > Windows 10 19042.868 > Edge 90.818.46

Answer 1

... delete browsing data, cookies, cache when browser closes.

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... I don't wish to be continually asked by sites for 'cookies' permission and also to be unable to remain signed into my email services as I have always been.

Those two aren't compatible. If you delete cookies on close, you remove the data that tells the website next time you visit it that you're happy with cookies and that keeps you signed in to your email services. Visit the page edge://settings/clearBrowsingDataOnClose again and decide just what you want to clear. I don't clear anything on close, but I will clear the Cached images and files once in a while just to save a bit of space.

Answer 2

Thanks Firedog.  I knew I had at least one setting wrong.  thanks you for clarifying it for me.  I am so used to the Internet Explorer browser I guess, so am always trying to use Edge the same way.  I would so dearly love to have internet Explorer back but apparently Microsoft did not know a good thing when they had it.

Particularly for 'dummies' like me who found Int. EXP. so easy to understand and navigate.  I'll keep learning.  thanks again for your kind response.