How to switch off the Microsoft Start news feed on every new tab on a Windows computer

MSN is often very clickbait - title LIES It also shares many out and out sensationalist stories - story also LIES

It is easy to switch off.

This simple tip can hugely reduce your level of exposure to CLICKBAIT FALSE HEADLINES every day.

Go to a new tab and:

1. click on the cog settings icon.

2. scroll down to switch called "Show feed"
   (an unintuitive label as it doesn’t mention the word “news”)

3. switch it to "off".

Immediately you will see a new tab page much like most other browsers without any news stories on it.

Here is how to switch off the news feed on Edge on Windows PCs / laptops. You have to scroll down past other settings to see this check box:

TEXT ON GRAPHIC: How to switch off the Microsoft Start news feed on every new tab on a Windows computer

Go to cog (settings) then scroll down to “Show feed” and switch to off.

This graphic shows the difference between it on and off,

Sadly, many users of a Windows computer won’t know how to switch it off. Every time they go to a new tab then they see the news yet again. They don’t want to see this but the option to switch it off is in an unintuitive place, amongst other check boxes part way down the page and not very clearly labelled.

If you do this, this has the potential to hugely reduce your exposure to news every day for some people :).

So anyway - at least you can switch them off.

From my section: How to switch this sensationalist news filling behaviour off in Windows laptops - easy to do but it’s tucked away in an unintuitive check box in my:

If you do need to use it, you can configure it to decide what you want to see.

First, you can block individual publishers from the … settings menu at the top right of each item, like this

TEXT ON GRAPHIC: How to block Daily Express [sensationlist, this is nothing new]

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You can also choose topics that interest you and select the publishers you want to follow. To get to this page click on Personalise at top right of your feed.

You can manage blocked channels from New Tab » Personalize » settings (the three horizontal lines icon)» My Channels » Blocked.

I don’t use the tab much but these are some of the channels I’ve blocked as often sharing sensationalist stories that don’t interest me. The Guardian used to be much better but now often sadly shares sensationlist and gloomy clickbait.

And follow channels from the Following section - that includes interests as well as publishers:

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