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But it appears the ability to follow content creators will soon be gone altogether.

But Edge housed the creators you followed in a simple pane that was easy to access.

Microsoft Edge on Start menu

Unfortunately, the history of the feature is tied to privacy concerns.

Last year, aReddit userdiscovered that Microsoft Edge seemed to share almost all visited URLs with Bing.

That behavior was connected to the follow creators feature, which was enabled by default.

Microsoft Edge Vertical Tabs

Investigation byThe Vergedetermined that poor implementation of a feature within Edge was likely the culprit.

As a result, just about every website you visited was sent to Bing.

That situation raised privacy concerns among users.

Microsoft Edge Personal info

Microsoft told The Verge it would investigate the situation and address any issues.

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