So you lose out on the experience and the monetization along with it. The problem is that if you sacrifice a good experience in the name of monetization, no one will use it. While I look at the ads and the headlines, it feels like just another way for Microsoft to monetize its browser instead of actually making it a good experience. Why would anyone want a busy, noisy new tab page? I don’t know about you, but when I click that ‘+’ icon to open a new tab, I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do with it. The thing is, even if the content was relevant, I wouldn’t want to see any of that. There are also ads with headlines like, “Is a Recession Coming? 5 Things To Do ASAP”, and frankly, it blends right in with the quality of content I’m seeing natively. Labeled as “My Feed”, it’s a bunch of stuff that I wouldn’t care about in a million years, such as headlines about Rihanna’s child, what Britney Spears posted on Instagram, football news, and more. We have and new tab page is better? More peaceful? Pleasant? Less disruptive to your FLOW? /AZn3Zs9Mpjīelow that is what basically feels like spam. Below are shortcuts to frequently viewed websites, which is fine. And yes, you can customize it, but I don’t have the time to do that on every new PC, nor should I have to.Īt the top is a search bar, powered by Bing, as you’d guess. The new tab page in Edge is so bad that it almost gives me a headache. One of the reasons I choose Vivaldi despite how buggy it is is that the new page can have almost nothing on it. There’s no one that goes through that and comes out on the other end grateful that they ended up using Bing. Tricking you into switching your default browser is another gotcha moment. It’s on top of a whole bunch of other stuff that feels like cheap tricks to get you to use Bing. This is behavior that I’d expect, and I’m not particularly mad about it on its own. It’s just saying that your settings have somehow been changed from what’s recommended and that it’s a problem you should fix.Īnd of course, if you change your default search engine, that’s one of the settings that won’t sync. That pop-up is misleading too, and it makes Edge feel more like malware than anything else.
And Microsoft actively tries to push me to use it.įor example, I opened with that story about how Edge occasionally just tosses up a pop-up to tell you to use recommended settings. It means I forgot to change the default search in some browser I’m using. Every single time I see a Bing search page, it’s by accident.
I, however, would prefer it if I could never see Bing again. That means that despite the fact that so few people use it that you’d expect for it to be killed off, Microsoft actually does care quite a bit about it. The problem is that Bing powers a lot of Microsoft’s efforts, not just web searches from.
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