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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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- Ahhh, others who dislike this "Start to Collect" section following our own personal Collections. Hoping someone makes it go away soon or at least the option to disable this annoying list of unnecessary items.
I agree totally with the need to have a remove or a don't but me option. I like collections. I detest Microsoft pushing collections at me! HATE, HATE, HATE. It is very intrusive.
- Microsoft can never resist adding features without benefits, and this is a perfect example of that. Do people that work there use Collections? Adding "Start to Collect" ideas is like putting horseshoes on dogs. I'm a codger and despise opening my system almost every morning to a 5-minute show-and-tell about some updated but usually unneeded new marketing department "enhancement" to an important app on which I depend. Microsoft is not alone here, but "Start to Collect" is a perfect example of...of...of...of what?
- Collections: Fantastic Function
Start to Collect: RUIN IT ALL
Please remove this part or at least allow us to disable it. Or I will simply stop using Collections. Cody Arnould I agree that the addition of Start to Collect feeds/ads in Collections now defeats the purpose of having your own collection in the first place! I do not want to surf via Collections and the pushed suggestions are not relevant. Also, you can no longer right-click the Collection to open the menu, it requires you to open the ellipsis menu, select the menu option, and click again. A waste of time.
Microsoft, please allow a setting to disable Start to Collect for those who want the clean interface back again and re-enable the Collection right-click menu. Thanks.
- Hurray!
As of today, June 1, 2023, the Start to Collect section has vanished from Edge! Don't know if this just temporary. If not, thanks Microsoft for listening to us.- No. Still there. I'm on version 113.0.1774.57
My work laptop is highly controlled by my company. In Edge, I don't have "Start to Collect" in the Collections space. I will try to figure out how they set it up. My guess is it is a registry edit.
The suggested collections feature seems to only impact personal Microsoft accounts. Enterprise accounts are untouched. Microsoft knows who pays the bills.
- 100%. I'll literally ignore that every single time, so it's basic useless clutter. If the option is not available soon, I'll just think of a workaround to block those elements.
- If you do find a workaround, please let me know.
- Just sign out of Edge. Your collections will not synchronise across devices but better than having the suggestions. I am looking to get rid of Bing as it seems Bing is the culprit
- Another person who wants to get rid of the distraction of unwanted photos and just be able to see my collections. I also preferred collections as a pop out option not something I have to close. An irritation not an improvement (and I've now wasted more time complaining about it!)
IIf MS wants me to use Edge they need to quickly provide a method to turn off the "Start Collecting" crap. Absolutely none of the suggestions there are of any interest to me, and just serve as a distraction. I frequently use my computer for demonstrations and the suggestions are inapproporiate. I'v moving back to Chrome until this is resolved.Cody Arnould
Adding my voice to the "This is horrible. Make it go way" Chorus.
More worrying is information which was private is now surfaced through
https://www.bing.com/savesI had assumed that what was shared been my computer and phone via my Microsoft account was encrypted and not used by Microsoft, this is clearly not the case. Edge had been trustworthy. Now it isn't
jhoneill You hit the nail. It is not that they "modified" the collections screen. They left it there but it is inaccessible now, Collections points to something entirely different hosted on Bing. Not on Edge anymore.
It is that the collections stored on local edge (and synced between devices) were EXPORTED to Bing.
There are ways to bring the old collections but they don't sync anymore between devices. And if you turn on sync, they get exported again (no permission asked) to Bing. I just found out today while playing with permissions.
So, it's worse than initially thought. Everyone's collections were funneled away to Bing (without explicit permission) in the most sneaky way. And there is no way to move them back to local.
I just turned off every single permission all over Bing and Edge but will definitely look for a new browser, Chromium powered hopefully 😑
andres, exactly right.
I've just switched my desktop browsers back to Chrome on desktop and Safari on mobile and laptop. I fiddle around with Firefox too, but those three are all better choices than Edge at this point. It's just becoming stuffed with more and more garbage.
