In Internet Explorer, placing a site in the "Trusted Sites" zone often lowered the security bar significantly, enabling functionalities like script execution, file downloads without prompts, and—most notably—ActiveX controls. This created a massive attack surface; if an attacker could compromise a domain whitelisted in Trusted Sites, they could easily execute arbitrary code on a client machine.
Edge introduces a similar to Internet Explorer’s concept, accessible via: trusted sites in microsoft edge
Once a site is trusted, the following policies can be automatically relaxed or user-configurable per site: In Internet Explorer, placing a site in the
So, what benefits do trusted sites offer? Here are a few: Here are a few: Microsoft Edge is built
Microsoft Edge is built on the Chromium open-source engine. Chromium does not natively support the Windows Zone architecture. Instead, Chromium relies on a binary "Safe Browsing" list managed by Google and Microsoft, and site-isolation sandboxing technologies.
From here, you can view, add, or remove sites from your trusted sites list.