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Edge Collections - Star To Collect - bad idea not to include a remove option
I noticed in the newer versions of edge collections "Start to collect" - After searching I've found this to be a very bad addition to collections. Collections actually got me away from pocket but with this "Start to collect" I am wanting to go back to pocket.
I submitted feedback but am hoping MSFT is reading these as Edge is a great browser - the collection option is great - especially when my favorites are full/unorganize I use collections for my "focus on" options.
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and now I hate Microsoft and Edge all over again. How easy it is to hurt brands by pushing turd nobody wants.
What can I say? That "collections" place is MY place. MY contents. I did not ask for it to be aggregated with whatever random trash that shows there every time. I know technically it comes from somewhere else (MSN) but I do not care.
The Collections space was supposed to be MY space to keep MY information. What's next, the Favorites list?
I really hate, despise, contempt (yes, it's a verb too) this new feature. WTH is going on with Edge?PS: Where did "Add all tabs to Collections" go? Just asking for a friend 😐
- BTW, the best part of all is that this ONLY happens if you are signed into the browser with a Microsoft account. If you sign out, all this nonsense goes away. Special treatment for us, I guess! It's beyond absurd. I'm losing faith in this browser. First, they push the "Discover" button on us. Now this. No issue at all if they want to provide this as an option, but it needs to be able to be turned off.
Thanks! So easy! Just logged out and the suggestions go away. This is such an annoying feature! my wife and I were talking about Shirley Temple and her famous curly hair once and my daughter asked who she was. I showed a photo and explained. Now the suggestions in collections are full of photos of Shirley Temple! Collections was really great and useful but, as usual, Microsoft ruined it! They seem to have a talent for messing stuff up and annoying people! I am still angry about Windows Phone 10!!!
- I can not agree more.
Edge is my "work browser," and those "Start To Collect" items take up space and slow down my daily jobs. - I made the mistake to update Collections in Edge without researching it first.
I agree with everyone in this thread: This "Start to collect" showing "ideas" is the worst thing I have encountered since I started using Edge. Especially not being able to disable this dumb "feature". These "ideas" are mostly irrelevant and completely unorganized.
This NEEDS to be an option to be turned off - ASAP! Sooooo annoying like ads, which is probably the next stupid idea someone will throw in there. Man, I'm irritated.
I really don't want to use sluggish-riddled with junk in the background-Chrome again or go through the hassle of imparting, customizing Firefox or Brave.- Well, as much as I liked Collections, I went through all and saved the links, and then deleted ALL Collections. I will need to go through and organize all of my bookmarks/favorites just like in the old days. I will likely utilize OneNote as a replacement for Collections.
For now, I think I will stick with Edge, because it seems to run faster and smoother than Chrome which has just way too much junk running in the background. I use Edge at work and rely on the synching of my favorites and settings there, so naturally I stick to the same environment at home as well.
I just hope Edge will improve and not decline any further. Firefox and Chrome were my go-to browsers before Edge, and I played around with Opera and Brave. Don't really want to waste more time trying them all out.
- Agree 100%. This is absurd and intrusive, and they also forced collections to be pinned and not just a fly-out window, which I prefer. I submitted feedback for this as well.
- I second this, it made the whole collections things way less streamlined, and also way slower, especially on mobile
I sent feedback about this issue using Microsoft Edge's built-in feedback platform. I also made a https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/4f670906-9fdf-ed11-a81b-000d3a7db83a on Microsoft's Feedback Portal.
- This new feature is a terrible idea. I do not need a bunch of unwanted photos cluttering the entire Collections pane. It's like getting spam mail. Microsoft, we do not need a way to remove these-- simply eliminate this 'Start to Collect' all together. Nobody asked for it, nobody needs it.
I just discovered this addition today. More algorithmic content forced upon me that I can't turn off, cluttering the Edge UI and bloating the browser.
- I used to keep a small group of collections. Until MS gives me the option to turn it off, I am going back to Chrome. I opened Edge to have all kinds of irrelevant rubbish. Just like MS Start and my feed, it's all rubbish content as far as I'm concerned. Well done MS, back to Chrome I go.
- Today I've opened my Collections (I have 20 at the moment) to see only the latest 6 and a lot of photos of Bezos' girlfriend. I had to search who Lauren Sanchez is - I was never interested in her. I've chosen "Show less like this" about 50 times but she is still all over the place. I don't want to see her, she is ugly.
Also, now I have to press the "Show all" button almost every time to see my actual collections.
And I don't like that Collections are now pinned to Sidebar, I prefer them being an overlay flyout.
