How to prevent Microsoft Start page from coming up when I click on a news article in the New Tab page?

Anonymous
2022-01-04T14:49:25+00:00

Starting today (1/4/2022), whenever I click on a news article in the New Tab page, the Microsoft Start page is displayed instead. How do I stop that from happening?

Microsoft Edge | Other | Windows 10

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-01-04T14:54:29+00:00

    This is very irritating. When I click on a news feed on the start screen on Edge the last thing I want is to be redirected to "Microsoft Start" and then try to hunt down the article on there. If I want MS Start I'll go to my widgets screen.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-01-04T15:12:47+00:00

    Same. This happened to me starting today. I get caught in an endless loop opening a new tab to Microsoft Start and the hyperlink never gets to where it should when I click it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-01-04T16:25:01+00:00

    Someone else described this as irritating. I would say that irritation is a mild description - this is infuriating. Who at Microsoft thought it would be a good idea that when a user clicks a newsfeed link, they get redirected to a completely unrelated page and need to search further for the new article they wanted to read in the first place? Taking a page from poor customer service, "instead of giving them what they want, let's give them what WE want"!

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-01-04T16:09:54+00:00

    The reported fix did not work for me. Microsoft needs to fix this ASAP.

    Thanks,

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-01-04T15:44:39+00:00

    Hello Carlo,

    I am also having the same issue. I tried restarting to default settings and I am already at the version of Edge that you identified. I restarted and those actions did not change anything. Edge still launches out to www.msn.com feed and will not open the actual link.

    Wendy

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