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

Just add CSS:

img { pointer-events: none; }

This worked! Thank you!

Answer 2

This solution works well for static images. Unfortunately it also breaks any javascript functions or links related to an image. Still looking for a solution that maintains links, hover effects, etc.

Answer 3

FWIW, adding display: inline-block or display: block to the a element makes the link functional while not having pointer-events on the image. Hope this helps!

Answer 4

Solution is DONT USE BING am going to use google search

Answer 5

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.