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Brass Contributor

Jan 18, 2020

Submit a bug

There is a problem with the new official version of the Chromium Edge. The new tab suddenly became like this. If I remember correctly, this is Microsoft MSN's promotion al-Greater China ...

Copper Contributor

Jan 18, 2020

Maybe that's right. OP might want a global version of MSN. But in mainland China, MSN and Bing will be forced to jump to the localized version. In the latest version, Edge's new tab page also displays Bing's Chinese ICP registering information.

MVP

Jan 18, 2020

Yes, i think China told Bing to do that, as part of a contract or something

monstorix
Copper Contributor
Jan 18, 2020
Maybe for the legal reason. The search engines and content services must go through some kind of censorship in China, so Bing and MSN need to optimize their content for the Chinese users. Edge uses MSN's infomation to display the new tab's news content , so the weird look appears.
- HotCakeX
  MVP
  Jan 18, 2020
  Yes you must be right about that
  - Mary-Sue
    Brass Contributor
    Jan 19, 2020
    HotCakeX monstorix
    I turned on my computer last night and found an interesting place.
    Like this.
    
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    The "custom" button in China is not the same as the screenshot you mentioned above, and the customization in China can even turn off Microsoft's news recommendations entirely, including the inexplicable MSN URL Yellow Pages.
    
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    But more puzzling things emerged last night to update Ver. CAN 81.0.369.0, a bookmark bar appears above the new tab! This has never been seen in previous inside programs. Although I know That Chrome can set up a new tab to display a bookmark bar, but this time Microsoft let it actively show out, it is true that people are a little unaccustomed 😛

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