My web browser shows me a newspaper-like webpage every time I open a new tab, how to tackle this?

[bendqh1]

@luckieday11 @ralphm and @sanjanamohanty4342 please go through replies #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15 to know about my personal solution and way with this. Thank you all.

The problem is solved from any direction now.

[fconijn]

To get a completely blank new tab in Edge:

1. Make your antivirus program exclude C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts.
2. Add these lines to that file:

0.0.0.0 pipe.aria.microsoft.com
0.0.0.0 assets.msn.com
0.0.0.0 web.vortex.data.microsoft.com
0.0.0.0 browser.events.data.msn.com
0.0.0.0 www.msn.com
0.0.0.0 sb.scorecardresearch.com
0.0.0.0 c.bing.com

3. Save the file, close Edge and reopen it.

Let me know how it worked out.

[bendqh1]

I don’t use anti virus program other than Windows Defender.

I am confortable with my solution above.

Thanks a lot for sharing this idea.

[bendqh1]

For some odd reason I came across the news etcetera webpage again.

It happaned after Edge web browser general history clear, but I can’t reproduce with another Edge general history clear, so maybe I confused between using Edge to using Chrome with a navigation to bing.com.

Anyway, I hope Microsoft will give us mere search engine pages both in Edge and in bing.com (like Google do in google.com), nothing more, nothing less.

Until dramatic change of Edge tabs and Bing webpage data, I have decided to stop using Edge and consider an alternative. I do keep using bing.com (which is a good search engine in my opinion), just more carefully.