How to Tweak Advanced Settings in your PS4 Browser

Want to browse safe, manage cookies, or disable JavaScript in your PlayStation 4’s browser? Here is everything you’re looking for.

Undoubtedly, PlayStation 4 is an amazing device; it’s not just a gaming console; it is more than that. What can you not do on your PlayStation? You can play games, watch YouTube, stream movies, and listen to music, play Blu-ray CDs and surf the web. Even Sony has integrated a browser in the console. Nothing can be impossible once you get access to the internet world. Browsers have their default settings that many users don’t prefer to use. And, some settings are done for some specific work or requirements. Here’s how to access and do advanced settings in your PS4 browser.

How to Activate Do Not Track in your PlayStation’s browser

These days, a lot of information and data is available on the internet. From advertisers to hackers, all want to monitor your activities and steal your data. You may have noticed why all the websites you open show the ads of the things you want to purchase. They are watching your online behaviour and target the ads according to it. To keep you safe, the PlayStation browser has a preinstalled feature ‘Do Not Track’. You can enable this in your console’s browser to browse safely.

Here is how to activate Do Not Track in your PlayStation’s browser.

1.    Start your console’s browser.

2.    When it opens, click the ‘Options’ button on the connected controller. Clicking it will bring up the browser’s menu at the right side of the screen.

3.    Go to ‘Settings’ in the menu and click the ‘X’ button to open. The settings interface will now appear on the screen with various options.

4.    Go down to the last option in the Settings “Request that Websites Do Not Track You”.

5.    Then check whether it already has a checkmark at the right side. The settings that are enabled display a checkmark in a box at their right side. If it has, then the feature is already activated in your console.

6.    If it doesn’t have a checkmark, make sure that the ‘Do Not Track’ option is highlighted.

7.    And click the ‘X’ button to activate.

“Do Not Track” will activate in your PS4 browser. If you want to deactivate it, go back in the browser settings and remove the checkmark with ‘X’ button. Once you do this setting, then accessing and doing other settings in your PS4 browser will be easier.

How to disable JavaScript in your PlayStation browser

There can be various purposes for disabling JavaScript. Here is how can you disable it.

1.    Start your console’s browser and click the ‘Options’ button on the connected controller.

2.    In the browser’s menu, select ‘Settings’ and hit the ‘X’ button to jump into setting’s interface.

3.    Go down and highlight the ‘Enable JavaScript’. It will be the second option under the settings.

4.    Now, check whether ‘Enable JavaScript’ has a checkmark in its box at the right side. The settings that are enabled display a checkmark in their box. If it has, it means JavaScript is enabled in your PS4 browser.

5.    To disable it, make sure that the ‘Enable JavaScript’ option is highlighted.

6.    And click the ‘X’ button to remove the mark.

Once the checkmark is removed, JavaScript will be disabled. To enable it again anytime, place a checkmark in its box.

There are several other settings, such as Allow Cookies, Delete Cookies, Clear Website Data, and Web Filter in the Settings interface. You can easily edit any of these settings for your PS4 browser.

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