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Comment by mrr54 | Hacker News Reader

And yet when I open Edge, I get a million ads for crappy tabloid news websites thrust in my face, while when I open Chrome I don't see any ads.

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I just setup Edge a few minutes ago. There are two options "Inspirational" and "Focused" that show no crappy tabloid news websites and one that does - I didn't pick that one :)

Also, happy to report that 1password has an extension for Edge as well - that's awesome.

Only thing I'm missing is a dark mode extension. I don't trust the somewhat sketchy ones that I see so far on the store.

If you enable dark mode in your Windows settings, you can just use the built in browser dark mode. This is also a setting in CSS to enable dark mode when this is enabled. Last, you can install extensions from the Chrome Store.

You can also install extensions from the Chrome Web Store in Edge, there's a switch to enable the feature on the extension management page.

> I just setup Edge a few minutes ago. There are two options "Inspirational" and "Focused" that show no crappy tabloid news websites and one that does - I didn't pick that one :)

I chose focused. It's a nice option.

Too bad it doesn't respect your search engine preferences, because any searches you do with it seem to always go to Bing, regardless of what address-bar search engine you have selected.

The tabloid you can further deactivate under the gear of the new tab

Chrome android features lots of tabloid ad crap in its home page.

I believe this may also be dependent on whether you're on a personal machine or enterprise network. My Edge start page has a gear with the Page Layout options (Focused, Inspirational, Informative) and also radio buttons for Page Content with a choice between Office365 and Microsoft News. My default displayed Office365 (recent documents opened list) without any of the MS News agg tiles.

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