Re: Can anyone get Edge Copilot to work without logging in after July 2026?

On Mon, 7/27/2026 9:20 PM, Maria Sophia wrote:
> Can anyone get Edge Copilot to work without logging in after July 2026?
>   https://copilot.microsoft.com/
> 
> As of this month, whenever I use MS Edge to go to Copilot, no matter what
> tricks I use, it wants me to immediately log into a mothership account.
> 
> I can only find one trick that still works, and it only works in Edge.
> But with no other browser can I get copilot to not ask for a login now.
> 
> Q: Other than sidebar Copilot, did you Copilot in Edge just recently ask
> for a login to a mothership account every time you go to it using Edge?
> 
> NB: A separate thread on the Firefox ng shows nobody can do it there.
>  Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.firefox
>  Subject: Recently, did your Firefox stop using Microsoft Copilot in anonymous mode?
>  Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:00:07 -0700
>  Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> 

On my W11 Home (25H2), if I open MSEdge, there is a CoPilot icon right-most
on the top line. That is what I would use for CoPilot "Chat".

My Task Bar also has a CoPilot icon, but that icon "doesn't know who I am".
That would be an example of a path with a login requirement. At first, it
made a fuss of installing itself, but now it sits there quietly.
I think there was an MSOFFice365 CoPilot6 that made a fuss of
installing itself, and I hunted that down and removed it (since
M365 isn't rented/used on the machine and who wants a grumpy AI
with nothing to play with).

Yet, the MSEdge and its top-right-most icon, it knows my username, which
implies that perhaps my usage of a PIN at startup time, counts as
a login, and that's why I am not being pestered there. No policy change
has occurred there recently.

I don't fool with any other CoPilot portals, because if I were to do
that, there would undoubtedly be some "side effect" I would later
regret having triggered.

   Paul