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

I just switched from Chrome to the new Edge browser to try out the new OpenAI features. Whilst browsing on my own e-commerce website I found about this dreadful feature. I completely understand your concerns about Microsoft Edge's Visual Search feature and agree that it can be frustrating for website owners to have external links added to their site without their consent. As far as I am aware, there is currently no way for website owners to prevent Microsoft Edge from adding the Visual Search button to their images. However, I do think it would be helpful if there was a way to tag websites to opt-out of this feature, and I hope that this is something that Microsoft considers in the future.

Answer 2

This is absurd. It won't be long before someone sues Microsoft for this. Our customers are VERY unhappy that their own website is directing people away and there is nothing that we, as developers and webmasters, can do about it. It makes us look bad, makes websites look shady and untrustworthy, and confirms that Microsoft Edge is the scammy, spammy product it's always been.

Answer 3

Just add CSS:

img { pointer-events: none; }

Answer 4

Wow, that worked! Thank you, you rock. Microsoft still sucks, but you rock.