100% agree on the home-page nastiness too. Also, in Edge the new tab page is loaded from MS servers, even if you disable all the optional stuff. It looks like

100% agree on the home-page nastiness too. Also, in Edge the new tab page is loaded from MS servers, even if you disable all the optional stuff. It looks like something local (it doesn't have a visible url) but this is misleading. If you kill your internet connection you get a different, simpler new tab page. The Edge UI doesn't let you pick a different new tab page but you can change it using group policy.