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

Right it is really infuriating. Plus, now they can click on my artwork and select to even edit my artwork directly in the browser. How dare they. How do we stop this, there has to be some copyright rules about it somewhere.

Answer 2

Whoever added visual search without adding option to disable it should be executed at the spot.

Answer 3

It can be disabled with

img { pointer-events: none!important;}

but it disables the click to open the images.

Seems like Microsoft did not remove "visual search" since 2023, they do not consider that advertisers who pay for Bing advertising are affected.

It is strange, they can do anything on Bing but directing visitors outside from the advertisers' website is like a virus, anti-business.

If the visitor is visiting, it means intent.

If the visitor wants to leave/search, can right click and select an option like visual search.

But to actively drive visitors outside the advertisers' website, it seems anti-business.

Maybe I am wrong, but it reminds malware: you try to click on the image and Edge drives you to other external websites.