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I occasionally open the ad/tip by mistake, because I wake the mouse and PC by clicking. I guess this is my mistake for "holding it the wrong way", but it's quite annoying nonetheless.

> Certain attempts to log in to Windows will also open Edge.

I think that is when you click the teaser text with the dots and just expect the location of the nice picture to unfold.

Yes!! That’s it! And that’s exactly what I expect, to just see the answer to the text.

Look up dynamic theme on the windows store. It grabs the daily bing images and sets your lock screen image to them but since its set to a picture there aren't any ads.

You can disable all the ads. Though it does require digging through the settings.

You used to be able to with registry hacks, but those hacks don't work anymore.

I recreated this feature ad-free with a Powershell script: https://github.com/gregoryjjb/fake-spotlight