#NEW TAB DOES NOT SHOW MOST VISITED HOW TO#
How to Remove Most-Used Sites from Top Sites in Microsoft Edge Luckily there is a setting in Microsoft Edge that lets you remove your most frequently visited sites from the “Top Sites” section of this New Tab window. This is helpful for letting you quickly access your most visited sites but, if other people also use this computer, you might not want to make it so easy for them to see the sites that you visit often. You may see things like news and weather here, but you probably also see some of the sites that you visit most frequently when using Microsoft Edge. When you open a new tab in Microsoft Edge, you see a window that displays assorted helpful information that can help you find certain sites.
#NEW TAB DOES NOT SHOW MOST VISITED TORRENT#
Devs also included other blacklists, like the one for preventing thumbnails of piracy and torrent sites from being shown next to tiles promoting official DVDs. The original adult filter list wasn't the only blacklist that Firefox implemented for the New Tab page back in 2014. Mozilla devs implemented the adult filter because commercial partners that bought sponsored content didn't want their tiles "to be negatively associated with adult content." Back then, the Firefox New Tab page contained a section called Suggested Tiles, which was used as a way to show sponsored content and to surface some of users' most visited sites. The filter was developed and implemented back in 2014. The reasons behind this filter don't reside in the engineers' attention to protecting users' browsing habits and privacy, but in sheer commercialism. This means that any time a user makes a habit of visiting a particular adult site, or the user intentionally or accidentally bookmarks an adult page, that page won't show up on the New Tab page at the most imappropriate times.
In its current form, the filter prevents thumbnails/tiles for adult sites from appearing in the Top Sites and Highlights section of the Firefox New Tab page.
The filter isn't new, dating back to 2014, but has only recently been spotted by some keen-eye Redditors, in November 2017 and today. The Firefox browser includes a secret filter that prevents adult sites from showing up on the new tab page, and by doing so, exposing some users' unsavory web browsing habits to nearby friends, to shoulder-surfing strangers, or in the worst case scenario - to the media.