Prevent Microsoft Edge from adding Visual Search to my website

Question

I have an eCommerce website and do not want Microsoft Edge to add a Visual Search button to my images. I think the Visual Search is unreasonable, adding external links to my website and allowing users to click away from my site. The only information on the web is Edge users turning off Visual Search, but nothing the website owner can do to turn off Visual Search. There should be a way to tag my website to prevent Edge from adding Visual Search. Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Answer 1

We have a web application (SaaS) where "Visual Search" makes zero sense.

However, this functionality is causing a lot of confusion among our users, and adds a lot of support burden.

We'd like to have a better way of turning this off, instead of relying on the pointer-events:none hack, which has other downsides.

I've actually come to appreciate Edge after hating IE for the better part of the past decade.

But stuff like this makes me disappointed in MS again.

Answer 2

Just add CSS:

img { pointer-events: none; }

This worked! Thank you!

Answer 3

I totaly agree with you. I'm making websites for art photographers. It's always difficult for them to sell images. Now you can do a visueal search and buy a similor picture on another website. This is very unfair!

There should come an option to disable this function on websites.

It must be possible! On Aliexpress this stupid function does not work! So there is a way to disable that may with a jscript or so.

Answer 4

Hi,

Has anyone found a solution to this as yet?

Thanks,

Answer 5

Thanks for your feedback Rodrigo,