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

Hi,

Has anyone found a solution to this as yet?

Thanks,

Answer 2

I have no idea but I can't see how they are allowed to put overlays on websites and take people away from those sites. Surely that must be illegal, they are interfering with peoples websites. I expect people would go through the roof if anyone could start putting overlays on other peoples sites.

Microsoft as usual as abusing their position.

Answer 3

This is what I said, feel free to use it as a template:

Dear Edge Team,

With the option of "Visual Search" showing up right over the products on our website, you are unfairly directing visitor and potential customers from our website away to other sites. And this you are doing without any permission from us.

As a long time Edge user, small business owner and Paying Bing Merchant, I think this is very unfair to our business and that of many others, so I request you to remove this immediately.

Thank you,

Miriam Kattumuri

Miriams Earthen Cookware

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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.