How do I stop "Show news and interests on the taskbar" from turning on?

Anonymous
2024-03-13T04:16:08+00:00

Whenever I turn off the "Show news and interests on the taskbar" setting, it eventually turns itself back on. While it is off, it works properly, disappearing from my taskbar. But then around 10 minutes later, it reappears on my taskbar with the setting being turned back on.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-09-26T18:13:40+00:00

    The evil process has returned!! I have it disabled and yet it's still running in the background, I want to nuke it and destroy it with a flamethrower

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-05-29T05:17:40+00:00

    It makes me sad to hear that there is a team hard at work on something that is only on the way. I've tried to find it useful, but maybe only 1% of the headlines are relevant to me, even after configuring what my interests are. As the tech guy for coworkers and family I can assure you that the only people who have the widget on the taskbar are those who don't know how to remove it. I know the same feed shows up on the New Tab for Edge and on the Android Launcher, which I use. I would remove it from those places too if they were on my way as it is on the taskbar. It takes space on the open apps real state.
    It even worries me that corporate may think that it is popular because people don't remove it, when the reality is that they don't know how to, and are too busy to care.

    Here's a suggestion to make News and Interests relevant and desirable: Make it a social network client, and let the user choose what social network it feeds from. If I could link it to Facebook, X, Instagram and/or even TikTok, I would not only use it and spend time on it, but I may even enable it on the taskbar.

    Bottomline, the algorithm that chooses content is not working. Use one that does.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-06-13T15:40:12+00:00

    Hello it has been TWO MONTHS and this hasn't been fixed please take some action because the same is happening to me

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-05-03T22:58:19+00:00

    There is multitude of problems with win 11 with basic features not working and being "ghost" features. Regarding win 10 the news and interest bit didn't used to be a problem. It started some time ago. It gives a user an impression that someone is tampering with the system or hacking it. Interesting bit is the one with auto updates that can't be turned off. They don't even ask anymore just force it upon people

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-05-03T21:10:40+00:00

    Hi, I am experiencing the same problem. Can you please make sure that the toggle actually does what it is supposed to do and when I turn it off it removes the news from task bar? I don't use it as it's distracting and not useful for me at all.

    Thanks

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