How to completely remove Copilot from Edge?

I liked DuckDuckGo and used it for awhile. However, it is tricky to know sometimes what it is excluding. And, when you are ready to remove it, you may find it wants to hang harder in various locations of your computer than other browsers. I'm not sure I'll go back to DDG because of my earlier experience getting rid of it, but it has a decent enough reputation and certainly no more problematic (IMHO) than Edge. Unfortunately, AI is going to become increasingly invasive across all platforms/media because that's where the money potential is right now. It was interesting to see that a bunch of AI employees are raising awareness that they are being coerced by various companies to keep their mouths shut about raising concerns about how their employers are using/planning to use AI. Potential for great good - greater potential right now for great harm. :-(

For the past month I stopped using the Edge browser and have been trialing the DuckDuckGo browser which I have been very happy about. First thing is that Copilot is nowhere to be seen with this browser, which is wonderful.

When viewing YouTube in DuckDuckGo, DuckDuckGo has its own media player which can be used that cuts out everything except the screen to view the video, the channel, comments and any advertising is removed. There is an option within the player to revert back to the normal YouTube player and to copy the URL of what you are watching.

Since using DuckDuckGo and particularly their media player, I have had zero spam emails.

I still open the Edge browser to download updates, but that's all I open it for.

But if I click on a link in an email in Outlook 365, that will open in the Edge browser. But that is most likely due to not yet setting DuckDuckGo to my default browser as I'm still trialing.

IT DOSEN'T WORK.

I've already disabled Copilot in the sidebar. I've toggled off "Chat response on result page" in the search settings. I want the Copilot AI disabled from the search result page, preventing automatic chatboxes on searches, and not activating when scrolling to the top of the results page.

Is there a way to verbally talk to someone from Microsoft support in order to remove Copilot from my PC? The regedit method and the group policy does not work for Windows 10 Pro. I want this off my PC.

The Group Policy (and the corresponding changes it makes to the register, only gets copilot to not show up in some places of windows outside the edge Browser.

It still appears in the edge browser even with a bunch of different things recommended by various people Sidebar disabled check, etc.

I don't use bing normally and ditto for Edge. But their a few things I use that don't appear to work in Firefox (my default) or Chrome.