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DarenG
Copper Contributor
Mar 17, 2020

Advertising on the New Edge

I really want to like Edge and use it full time.  The choices for advertising placement really seems misleading.  First I have noticed several false click bait ads showing up but that has always been...
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HotCakeX
MVP
Mar 17, 2020

HiDarenG 

to be honest? I can't agree more!

 

I can easily tell the difference between fake and real news but these stuff are just pure clickbait.

they use such titles that make people click on them and then forward them to other 3rd party sites full of ads and trackers.

I have Microsoft News on Windows 10 installed and the notifications and news I get are authentic, genuine and on topic, but on Edge new tab page, these are just so bad.

 

like "this piece of tech changed the entire life of people in US" , or "Coronavirus is cured" or "this guy predicts end of human race" and that kind of clickbait titles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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    Gary_Quinn
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 16, 2021

    Microsoft's Edge clickbait is surprising in the sense of a company that wants to be seen as "professional", but not surprising in a money-grabbing corporate sense.

     

    Please turn it off.

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