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Edge Collections - Star To Collect - bad idea not to include a remove option
I noticed in the newer versions of edge collections "Start to collect" - After searching I've found this to be a very bad addition to collections. Collections actually got me away from pocket but with this "Start to collect" I am wanting to go back to pocket.
I submitted feedback but am hoping MSFT is reading these as Edge is a great browser - the collection option is great - especially when my favorites are full/unorganize I use collections for my "focus on" options.
- It baffles me how Microsoft ALWAYS manages to take a good idea and ruin it.
The suggestions of things to collect is as useless as the articles they show in the newsfeed. They certainly show a total lack of knowledge of my interests or needs.- Agree, and the feed is often inappropriate. This is spam!
AnOldAmigaUser How I agree. It's a general thing with Microsoft. The new Collections is worse in nearly every way unless they have fixed the awful slow and unreliable aspects of teh old version.
Try this.
1. Go to the top of Edge browser and locate your Profile button.
2. Click on the gear icon at the top right hand corner titled "Manage Profile Settings"
3. When your profile window opens look for "Personal"
4. Go to the right of "Personal" and select "Sign Out"
5. A small pop-up window will appear asking you "Are you sure you want to sign out?"
6. Make sure before you click 'Yes" that the "Clear favorites, passwords, history..." is unchecked.
Also sign out of your Microsoft account because if you don't, the synchronization will prevent this procedure from working and the "start to collect" will still be there.
Close out your edge browser and restart your computer. Click on the Collections button on the top of the browser. If all goes well, the "Start to collect" entries will be gone.
If you want to synchronize to all your devices, you're going to have to to reverse the process I outlined. I would only do this just to update my collections on other devices and then repeat the process to disable the start to collect feature.
My experience so far, is that the start to collect feature has not returned. It's day two for me and so far so good.
Good luck.
- With all due respect, this is not a valid solution. It removes all the other benefits of a synced Microsoft account (open tabs, extensions, passwords, etc.) just to get rid of the garbage that Microsoft stuffed into the Collections feature. IMHO, we should just keep giving feedback directly to Microsoft (via the feedback feature in the browser) and use something else instead of Collections (Pocket is one example that can be used with all browsers). It's a shame because Collections was a really neat feature, but they really f'd it up for their personal customers.
I think I mentioned this earlier in the thread, but if you have an enterprise account with Microsoft (i.e., Office 365 and Azure AD), the Collections feature behaves as it always had: the fly out window and no "Start to Collect" nonsense. Presumably, this is a way of monetizing Bing which they don't need to do as much with their enterprise customers since we're already paying for the service. I'd gladly pay them a small annual sum to make all this garbage go away, but I doubt we'll ever have that option.- Richard_Bottiglieri I agree that it is not THE ultimate solution but it can be for those of us who do not have a business with the money to dish out to Microsoft every time it chooses to incorporate a bad feature without giving its users the option of disabling it. That also is no solution either.
- Honestly. It should be removed. It drags the browser and slows it down. It takes several mins for my collection to open because of its presence.
- Easy... start using another browser. Problem solved. I wish I could uninstall Edge.
- Same here - it is enough for me to sack off collections and return to bookmarks
- Microsoft, please remove this "feature". Stop ruining your products
- They won't. You can bet nobody from the product development team reads these communities. They may add a switch to turn some feeds off... at the expense of shoving garbage content somewhere else, or some other "business decision".
- The worst thing in edge is this!
Bloating unnecessarily.
My bad i updated the browser. Anyways a bigshout out to edge devs they made a great browser what all we need. - Edge had become my "perfect browser" then this crap. I will actively seek a better option if they don't allow me to turn this off.
- I just did. Already missing the option to just run/open a file instead of saving it, but it wasn't worth the junk.
I know I'm just one person, but it sure can't be possible that there's only a handful of us who've had it with this crap in collections, widgets, start, launcher, etc.
I understand the business decision, but I thought Microsoft was past the crappy content farm strategy. It's disappointing, because they were really nailing it with great design and polished experiences just months ago. And now we're back at having all Microsoft's experiences feeling rough and cheap, like that parody where they re-design the iPod boxing.
I really am hating the "push marketing" crap Microsoft has been building into Windows (widgets), Bing Home and Start pages,, Microsoft Start, and now Edge Collections. I want my information to be private. If I want to look for something I can do so, I do not want my time and attention to be wasted with any push marketing crap. Especially in areas where it does not belong. I should be able to use a computer and my phone without being subjected to crap load of push marketing. This is originally what took MSN (the horrific progeny of Netscape search) and Yahoo down the path of being the least used and least favorite search engine.
I have been a proud and unapologetic Microsoft supporter to the point that all that know me, have me surnamed, Microsoft's Freak Defender. With all of this new push marketing, Microsoft will lose me, heck I may even move to using an Apple computer and Chrome, my heretofore hated enemies.- Seems they don't care about losing customers. Look at Windows Phone. They have an incredible ability to ruin anything that works well. Take a look at Skype, Windows phone, now even the built on e-mail too!
- If Microsoft is listening it should at least post some acknowledgement.
These discussion board begin to look like a waste of time.
I can get most of routine work done with Linux. Linux Devs have enthusiasm and do respond. Any that don't can be cast aside for others. Competition seems not to affect Microsoft
- This is just like widgets and the new tab page. Could be so great, full of useful, accessible info... yet some idiot thinks it's a great idea to cover it with clickbait-ey content that doesn't even relate to one's interests. Microsoft was doing great, using opensource, resorting to truly great design... and I get it, they need to make money. But I truly doubt removing all that crap from widgets and collections would make a dent in MS's finances. It's we were back in those days where Microsoft wanted MSN to be the greatest media company and stuffed it with crap. It's like watching network TV.
