Re:Welcome to the Block Party: The internet after ad blocking
by cpeterso on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @04:13AM
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Microsoft announced earlier this year an IE feature called "SmartScreen Filter" that is supposed to detect and block misleading or malicious ads. I assume Edge has this feature, too, but from the blog post (and your experience) it sounds like it is disabled by default.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2015/04/28/cleaning-...