Remove Visual Search feature from Edge programatically

Question

Edge seems to have recently come out with a Visual Search feature, which pops up an icon above all images, allowing you to search for them etc. Very nice. See screenshot:

However, is it possible to switch this off via javascript or something similar? I am running a website where users are meant to click images as part of a personality profile mechanism, which is very sensitive to the selection environment. This distraction is very much unwanted.

Thanks in advance.

p.s. do any other browsers have any features like this I should watch out for?

Answer 1

Please report your dislike of this feature to Microsoft!

Everybody who comes to this page PLEASE report this to Microsoft.

Click the 3 dots that appears on top of the image and choose 'Send Feedback'.

This is not OK without a CSS / meta tag workaround to disable it.

I'll happily delete this answer if a way to disable it in code is discovered - but in the meantime we need to nip it in the bud - so please report it. Sorry this isn't really an answer - but if you've found this question you're probably as annoyed as me right now!

Answer 2

Had some success in turning off pointer events on the img using css pointer-events: none and haven't found a better solution thus far.