Get a clutter-free NTP in new Microsoft Edge (Hide News, Ads and Visited sites)

[Ink]

For new Microsoft Edge users who use Bing, but do not want the clutter on the NTP.

How to Hide MSN News from Search NTP
Open the cog on the NTP on new Microsoft Edge.

1. Choose 'Custom'
2. Turn off 'Show quick links'
3. Turn off 'Image of the day'
4. Change to 'Content off'

Optional

• Hide Greetings - Learn more.

Outcome
A clean NTP for searching the web with Bing, Microsoft's default search engine.

Before
An utter mess.

 

[roger_m]

I was unable to vote, or even like the post until I disabled AdGuard.

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

I was unable to vote, or even like the post until I disabled AdGuard.

Have the same problem with uBlock Origin (using some AdGuard filters).
By the way setting Edge up like this also makes it start/load faster

 

[harlan4096]

I use AdGuard Desktop + FF here also, and I could not even click on [Watch] the thread (got forum error) until I paused for 30 seconds the protection...

 

[SeriousHoax]

I couldn't vote with Ublock Origin and EasyList because EasyList was blocking it. No problem with Adguard Filters.

 

[Lenny_Fox]

I voted other, using Startpage and added BLOCK [*.]startpage.com in Site Permissions javascript, this prevents advertisements of startpage on the search results page being displayed.

Although I have implemented all this I decided to add the blank tab extension from the Microsoft store (link)

 

[codswollip]

How to Hide MSN News from Search NTP

I block ntp.msn.com

||ntp.msn.com^

You can do that via HOSTS as well.