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Status: WontFix
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Not on Chrome anymore
Closed: Jul 2017
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OS: Android
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Suggested Content reappeared on New Tab page even though #enable-ntp-popular-sites is Disabled

Reported by 13hu...@gmail.com, May 3 2017

Issue description

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Updated to Chrome version 58
Suggested content was previously hidden and disabled.

What is the expected behavior?
Suggested content on the new tab page should remain hidden / disabled.

Also, there should be an easy way to disable suggested content on the new tab page or in main settings IMO.

What went wrong?
chrome://flags/#enable-ntp-popular-sites shows "Disabled", but suggested content on the new tab page has reappeared in the form of news articles after updating the Chrome app to version 58.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 58.0.3029.83  Channel: stable
OS Version: 6.0.1
Flash Version:
 

Comment 1 by 13hu...@gmail.com, May 24 2017

Setting #enable-ntp-remote-suggestions to Disabled seems to have removed the sites on the new tab page.

However, it seems #enable-ntp-snippets is completely missing from the flags, even though it is still referenced in other ntp flag descriptions.

Comment 2 by kravula@google.com, Jul 6 2017

Cc: ntp-dev+bugs@chromium.org
Components: -UI UI>Browser>NewTabPage
Owner: vitaliii@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Unconfirmed)
Owner: dgn@chromium.org
Hi, thank you for your report!

Unfortunately, chrome://flags are meant only for testing and development and, therefore, we do not provide any guarantees there.

However, dgn@ works on disabling suggestions and may tell your more.

Comment 4 by dgn@chromium.org, Jul 7 2017

About disabling suggested content: you can disable all suggestions coming from Google servers (search and url from omnibox, articles from new tab page) via the "Search and site suggestions" toggle under Privacy settings.

Comment 5 by dgn@chromium.org, Jul 7 2017

Status: WontFix (was: Assigned)
About the #enable-ntp-snippets issue, it's fixed in the other bug you filed:  issue 739584 .

Closing this then.

Comment 6 by 13hu...@gmail.com, Jul 7 2017

Hmm, "Search and site suggestions" was already unchecked when the remote
suggestions started appearing on the NTP. Perhaps this setting did not
correctly apply to the NTP suggestions upon updating?

Comment 7 by dgn@chromium.org, Jul 7 2017

The new behaviour of the flag should only apply on Chrome 59. I see your report mentions Chrome 58. Is that fixed when you update?

Comment 8 by 13hu...@gmail.com, Jul 7 2017

Yes, it seems to be fixed in 59. With remote-suggestions flag set to default it is not showing suggestions when site suggestions is unchecked.

Thanks,

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