Bing's Visual Search has attacked us

[wajake41]

Microsoft Bing has attacked our sites with Visual Search, superimposing a Bing search link over our product's image on the prod page.
When the Bing link is clicked, it displays similar products from competing websites.
This is what chat has to say about Visual Search:

Visual Search Unfortunately, as a website owner, you can’t directly disable the Bing Visual Search link for users visiting your site through Microsoft Edge. This feature is controlled by the browser settings on the user’s end.

We have contacted the Washington State Attorney General with a complain about this.

[SNAGuy]

WOW ... I noticed that too!!!!!

[ocpxc02]

I had never seen this as I do not use Edge. It looks like it's been going on for awhile now and is very frustrating as we pay to get traffic to our site only to have someone else directing them back away. It affects Amazon, but I couldn't find an instance of it on Temu's website. It looks like you can prevent it from happening, but it will likely affect other functionality via css: img { pointer-events: none; }

[wajake41]

ocpxc02 Thanks for the lead.
Chat found the pointer-events style for me this morning.
Yes styling with pointer-events:none works but it disables any links on the image. Since our product page image is not a link I've added the pointer-events:none to our image there.
Looking for ways to remove it from other pages with images having links.

[ocpxc02]

We have the opposite scenario. It worked on CTGY for us, but we have links on the PROD page image.

[wajake41]

By using a "user agent" variable I have applied the fix specifically for Edge. The Boss and I are going to think about including the fix on category and storefront where we have links on the images.

[wajake41]

Styled all images to pointer-events:none for all images viewed with Edge. Someone should iniatiate a class action suit againnst Microsoft on this.

[mstella1]

Thanks for the heads up, I really never thought of it that way but you are completely right. Customers can easily look for a similar item someplace else.
As a temporary fix so I don't have to mess with the entire site I used this for now. I have a lot of mouseover scripts so this one works for me at the moment.

<img src="your-image.jpg" alt="Description" style="pointer-events: none;">

[wajake41]

Won't pointer-event:none disable mouseover and other mouse events to not work?