Investigate News Article URL Changes (Esp. International)

[gl3amingth3cub3]

Preflight Checklist

• [ ] Running microsoft-edge:https://google.com redirects successfully
• [ ] Microsoft Edge is selected in any "How do you want to open this?" box

Install Type

New Install

Install Mode

Active Mode

Steps to reproduce

Click on nearly any international news article from the widget. Always opens https://www.worldbank.org/en/home.

✔️ Expected Behavior

Open the actual linked article from the widget

❌ Actual Behavior

Opens https://www.worldbank.org/en/home every time I try to read an international news article from the widget.

Microsoft Windows version

win 11 pro 23H2

Other Software

No response

[JediBrooker]

same but my news articles open the wikipedia page for Australia: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia

[rcmaehl]

Microsoft has likely changed the new link URL format again. I would recommend disabling the feature in settings in the meantime.

[nuochan]

When I unchecked the MSN News: (ALPHA) option, news links will redirect correctly and will not open MS Edge.

[rcmaehl]

This will be fixed in the next release!

[dw1562]

When is the next release?