How to inhibit the visual search of browsers

  • Today browsers have the visual search function for products. If you visit a page on an ecommerce site like mine with woocommerce you realize that in the product photo the browser offers you an icon that says “Visual Search”. It may seem to the user that that icon is part of your site, but if you click on the browser it makes you exit the site and offers you other sites with images related to your product. This is all a detriment to your conversion. Has anyone already inhibited this browser function? These functions offered by browsers do not work if we visit sites such as Amazon or Farfetch.

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress topic

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  • What you mean is a relatively new invention that only the Microsoft Edge browser uses. No other browser currently offers it, and it’s not foreseeable whether any other will ever do so.

    Microsoft itself does not provide any information on how to hide this feature. As long as Microsoft does not provide this, it is not possible to hide it. As far as I read Microsoft switches the feature also only alternatively on and off. As a browser user, you can also decide for yourself.

    I want to know the answer to this too.
    It only happens when viewing the website in MS Edge.
    It can be turned off by the browser user but I want a way to disable it from the website.
    There must be a way because, as the OP said, it doesn’t come up for images on sites like Amazon or Ebay, so how are they blocking it?

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