Microsoft Edge has received a Bing Chat feature in the sidebar for some time now. Using it, you can ask complex questions and get answers, generate summaries, change Edge browser settings, and more.

Microsoft Edge has received a Bing Chat feature in the sidebar for some time now. Using it, you can ask complex questions and get answers, generate summaries, change Edge browser settings, and more.

Recently, Microsoft rebranded Bing Chat in the sidebar with a new Copilot icon and modified the Bing Chat settings to clearly convey that Edge will send browsing data to Microsoft for producing page summaries on Copilot.

Until now, the Bing chat setting Allow access to any webpage or PDF, enabled by default, informed users that they were Allow(ing) Bing chat to access their browser’s web content to personalize their experience with summaries and highlights.

The new setting available in Canary under Sidebar > Bing Chat > Allow Microsoft to access Page content clarifies that you’re sending browsing data to Microsoft to make AI-generated answers and suggestions more relevant on Copilot.

Once you agree, the page summary will be generated by sending your query, previous conversation history, and full browsing context to Bing Chat. This also enables a related setting in the sidebar.

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