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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by mrr54 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:57PM (#22058471)
And yet when I open Edge, I get a million ads for crappy tabloid news websites thrust in my face, while when I open Chrome I don't see any ads.
Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by localhost on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:19PM (#22058734)
I just setup Edge a few minutes ago. There are two options "Inspirational" and "Focused" that show no crappy tabloid news websites and one that does - I didn't pick that one :)

Also, happy to report that 1password has an extension for Edge as well - that's awesome.

Only thing I'm missing is a dark mode extension. I don't trust the somewhat sketchy ones that I see so far on the store.

Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by AlexMax on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @10:26PM (#22061430)
> I just setup Edge a few minutes ago. There are two options "Inspirational" and "Focused" that show no crappy tabloid news websites and one that does - I didn't pick that one :)

I chose focused. It's a nice option.

Too bad it doesn't respect your search engine preferences, because any searches you do with it seem to always go to Bing, regardless of what address-bar search engine you have selected.

Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by dessant on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:42PM (#22059029)
You can also install extensions from the Chrome Web Store in Edge, there's a switch to enable the feature on the extension management page.
Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by techntoke on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:42PM (#22059028)
If you enable dark mode in your Windows settings, you can just use the built in browser dark mode. This is also a setting in CSS to enable dark mode when this is enabled. Last, you can install extensions from the Chrome Store.
Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by oaiey on Thursday January 16, 2020 @02:22PM (#22067881)
The tabloid you can further deactivate under the gear of the new tab
Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by bepvte on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:42PM (#22059039)
Chrome android features lots of tabloid ad crap in its home page.
Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by dole on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:38PM (#22058979)
I believe this may also be dependent on whether you're on a personal machine or enterprise network. My Edge start page has a gear with the Page Layout options (Focused, Inspirational, Informative) and also radio buttons for Page Content with a choice between Office365 and Microsoft News. My default displayed Office365 (recent documents opened list) without any of the MS News agg tiles.