With the February update to Windows 11 - you have the option to disable MS start to feed from the Widget Settings. Requires Windows 11 23H2 at least.
How to disable news and interest in Windows 11 widget
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I want to keep the widget on my task bar, however I don't want the new stories to show. I've hide a bunch of them and they still end up showing, but I'm constantly having to hide them all since there are sooooo many. How do I disable the top stories, and the news and interest without turning off my widgets. I ONLY want the weather to show.
I've uninstalled microsoft news but I'm still seeing the news stories.
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I would suggest that you completely remove the the Widgets app from your taskbar - see here -and pin the Weather App to Start / Taskbar.
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Anonymous
2023-10-05T12:13:54+00:00 What a fantastic reply! I wish Microsoft would read this and try to understand we don't want their spam newsfeed. All I want to do is see the weather on my taskbar and then clicr to see more about the weather if needed, without seeing the nasty right-wing news on the right-hand side of the panel - too disturbing.
Someone at Microsoft is totally wanting to ruin user experience in favor of advertisement.
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Anonymous
2023-06-28T21:49:41+00:00 It boils down to advertising. They want to jam everybody with more ads. Otherwise the turn off button would be in setup. ( or one oƒ the setups. )
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Anonymous
2023-05-09T14:11:49+00:00 This works. THANK YOU! A note that you need to right-click and run PowerShell as Administrator and then it made me agree to a Microsoft source agreement to log my country code as US (why an agreement to uninstall??) and then it uninstalled.
The only think is that I kind of like widgets, but I really wanted the news feeds to stop!!! I guess I have to throw out the baby with the bathwater. I'd rather give up the widgets if that's the only way to rid the constant pulls of the news feeds.