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How to change the country of My Feed in Microsoft Edge Chromium?
How to change the country of My Feed in Microsoft Edge Chromium? It always shows US.
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Hichdslv
Now added the ability to change the location and languages for news content on the new tab page in Version 81.0.387.0
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chdslv All I can do here is give a clue that I stumbled upon. It's also what led me to having this problem in the first place. Hopefully somebody that know more than me can do something with it.
I'm in the Mid-Atlantic region of the USofA, and my feed was set appropriately. Then I hooked up to my VPN and my IP address registered in Montreal, Canada. If I did anything else at this point, I don't remember, but my feed has been Canadian ever since. Disconnecting from my VPN does not change it back.
Good luck cyber sleuths!
Hi all,
Some feedback from Belgium where by default we have multiple languages.
My Edge (Beta) was set to EN but the news displayed in the new tab were displayed in Dutch, while I'm French speaking. The news posted were indeed Belgian news so that was ok. However, I wanted to have news in French. (or say: from Belgian French-speaking sources).
So the setup was slightly annoying until I found out this article and tried a few things.
- In my preferred language settings, only English was present.
- I added French and then selected "Display MS Edge in this language".
- Upon restarting Edge, the news posts were displaying Belgian French-speaking news article. Hurrah, that did it.
- However, all Edge menu were now in French and .... I wanted to keep EN.
- I switched back to "English" (not English United States or United Kingdom) for the "display Edge in this language" and restarted Edge.
- Bingo, I have now exactly what I want:
- Contextual menus in Edge Beta are in EN
- News articles are in French and from Belgian sources.
Not so intuitive but it
worksdoes not work, so I share.EDIT: bah, no. After another browser restart, the news switched to US.
Henry08 Seems to have no effect in the latest dev channel version.
I can't see any change - no regional (Norwegian) feed sources are available after changing browser language.
As far as I know, the settings for my personalized feed in the classic Edge browser is stored and synced with my MS account. Edge Insider does not honor these settings.
FYI: To my knowledge, the feed region and sources setting is shared between Edge classic and the Microsoft News app.
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Thanks. Hope it'd come quickly.
chdslv Yes, regional news exists (for Norway in my case) and Microsoft spends resources on creating and editing that content. It is a bit unfortunate that this content is only available in the classic Edge browser as of now.
I have an English language version of the Edge Insider browser installed but I would expect it to be possible to select the region for the feed content as a separate setting.Please enable the setting - similarly as in classic Edge - to stop "blocking" the regional content.
