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I like Edge and I want to like Bing but my problem is that the new tab page on Edge and the landing page on (current) Bing are so bad. They're full of random junk and articles I don't want to see. I'll switch to Bing full time if they just make the landing page clean.

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Make your own customized landing page that is better/cleaner. There are many home/start page projects on GitHub you can use almost immediately:

https://github.com/perfect-things/perfect-home

https://github.com/anic17/homepage

https://github.com/Lissy93/dashy

https://github.com/benphelps/homepage

https://github.com/jeroenpardon/sui

https://github.com/pawelmalak/flame

https://github.com/migueravila/Bento

Check out the Bing start page settings. You can disable the articles, and more. I basically have the text box and weather in the top left corner. I even disabled the daily wallpaper.

I actually got in trouble at work because I submitted - what I thought was a polite - service ticket to set an Edge enterprise policy to make the new tab page blank. For 6 months every day all I saw was Trump this, Trump that. I stay away from politics; I've lost too many friends and family members. The problem was that for a while Edge was updating in a way that broke the preference you could set to blank the new tab page. I'd set it, it'd go blank for a week, then an Edge update would roll out and I'd see orange man again. I work in IT, so I'm always opening new tabs to our ServiceNow instance. I'd see ridiculous, inflammatory political articles while conferencing with other staff and outside customers and it was a huge distraction. I submitted a ticket to ask that our Edge policy be updated to blank this page always, and then I was reamed for being too sensitive. Also - same as the other poster - Edge is constantly nagging me to let Microsoft anonymously submit more data.

I'd love to love Edge because it's a big improvement over Chrome just by having vertical tabs, but both companies are too greedy to provide a good browser.

I don't know about Bing, but in Edge you can disable all of that random junk content and get a nice clean default page with just a single search text entry box (similar to the Chrome default).

The settings for modifying your layout and turning off all the content you don't want is available through the gear icon settings from the top right of the page. Would be nice if the default were clean, but you can opt out of all of that stuff.

I just set up edge on Mac today. If you go through the 3 or 4 quick setup choices, the last one is which layout you'd prefer. The last (I think it's called focused) is the one you're describing. So anyone experiencing this cluttered new tab page just didn't finish the exceptionally short setup process.

There are settings that will hide all of it, at least until you scroll, but it would be nice to have it just be the search and Bing image of the day (or no image if that's your jam.)

I simply use the "Blank New Tab Page" extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blank-new-tab-page...

This gives me back the good old about:blank new tab page. I use the URL bar to search for stuff.

Aside from telling you about the new GPT functionality I don't see anything else on the landing page at bing.com:

https://i.imgur.com/2f1D53L.png

You appear to have gotten the new version. The old (GPT-less) one is a horribly noisy mess, with a high-contrast background image to boot.

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