Richard FineI think a recent Edge update pushed a bunch of sponsored hotlinks onto the 'new tab' page, so I'm done with it. Let's see how Firefox is doing these days.
consolegrl@superpig Unfortunately Firefox has some sponsored links there too, difference is "when it breaks you get to keep both parts"; you can turn them off in about:config. Just type sponsored in the search box on the about:config page and set everything with sponsored in it to false. That, or you can download the source, remove the sponsored drek, and compile it yourself 
Jonas Bötel