Edge - cannot use secure DNS - Browser managed by organisation ?

rufford155 · 29 Nov 2023

Top of settings page says "Your browser is managed by your organisation".
I am not in any organisation, I am an individual with only a personal Microsoft account.
I have never had a MS account with an organisation.
What's going wrong here and what can I do to fix it?
Any advice greatly appreciated.
It was also stopping me selecting "Do not Track" but I fixed that using regedit - some old advice of yours I had used before.
But MS reverts it back with every update it seems !
I can't tell you how annoyed I find MS's actions in thinking they know better than me how I want to use my browser.

Brink · 29 Nov 2023

Hello,

It looks like it was disabled by the policy in option two below. If so, you can set it back to default to then be able to turn on.

Enable or Disable Secure DNS over HTTPS (DoH) in Microsoft Edge Tutorial | Windows 11 Forum

Callender · 29 Nov 2023

rufford155 said:

Top of settings page says "Your browser is managed by your organisation".
I am not in any organisation, I am an individual with only a personal Microsoft account.
I have never had a MS account with an organisation.

So many users don't understand what this means. It's explained here:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...4-55bb8cda33ee

Note

It's quite possible for policies to be set by a different program on the computer, e.g. a security suite (e.g. Webroot), a privacy-enhancing tool (e.g. O&O Shutup10), a browser extension (e.g. WebAdvisor) or by malware. They can also be set by the user personally, so the phrase managed by your organization can be really misleading.

rufford155 · 02 Dec 2023

Hi Brink,
I have done option 2 section 4 but it has made absolutely no difference !

What's more, the merged (?) key is not in the registry - and neither are all the other keys that I'm sure were there before.

So what the heck do I do now?

Edge does still seem to be working normally as far as I can tell.

Brink · 02 Dec 2023

That indicates the policy is not configured then.

You could see if reloading policies in Microsoft Edge below to refresh it may help.

Reload Policies in Microsoft Edge Tutorial | Windows 11 Forum

rufford155 · 16 Dec 2023

Sorry for delay, I have been indisposed.

Why do I need to reload policies when Edge seems to be working fine?

With regard to my original post, I realise I posted the same problem back in January and fixed it then.
And I partially fixed it this time too.
But now it's all back as it was before !
It comes back after every windows update because Microsoft always knows best, doesn't it?

So they may think they've won but I am giving up entirely on Edge which has become far too bloated anyway.

I am now using Brave which is safer and more private.