How do I TURN OFF the "Summary by Copilot" banner that appears on every single email I receive in outlook?

I really prefer Outlook webmail for its more attractive interface, but there's still no way to deactivate CoPilot in the web app. I saw that I had Outlook Classic on my computer so I opened it (I"m on Windows 10). It is not a pleasing interface and the text is almost too small to read. The zoom slider wouldn't work in the single pane view. But, there is only a button on the right side that says Suggestions when you open the email. This is not as intrusive as the banner. You can also remove the button by going to OPTIONS - Privacy Settings - Connected Experiences and uncheck the feature "Turn on experiences that analyze content". When you restart Outlook the button is gone. There is also an option to "Turn off automated switch to new Outlook app" in the General settings. Since they went to the trouble to make the setting optional in Outlook Classic, I assume they will eventually get around to making it optional in the web app. I tried contacting the Privacy team with a complaint but they only sent me a boilerplate reply that had nothing to do with Outlook.

I really prefer Outlook webmail for its more attractive interface, but there's still no way to deactivate CoPilot in the web app. I saw that I had Outlook Classic on my computer so I opened it (I"m on Windows 10). It is not a pleasing interface and the text is almost too small to read. The zoom slider wouldn't work in the single pane view. But, there is only a button on the right side that says Suggestions when you open the email. This is not as intrusive as the banner. You can also remove the button by going to OPTIONS - Privacy Settings - Connected Experiences and uncheck the feature "Turn on experiences that analyze content". When you restart Outlook the button is gone. There is also an option to "Turn off automated switch to new Outlook app" in the General settings. Since they went to the trouble to make the setting optional in Outlook Classic, I assume they will eventually get around to making it optional in the web app. I tried contacting the Privacy team with a complaint but they only sent me a boilerplate reply that had nothing to do with Outlook.

The new Outlook doesn't look that bad. I would rather say it's spoiled with unnecessary things. The workspace is reduced with unnecessary ribbons and frames. They keep trying to further ruin it, for example with the Copilot nonsense that reads emails. The idea is to convince people that it's cool and that they need it so that they can seamlessly analyze emails. Why would I read and open a summary when I can read the email? What's the point of that nonsense? I believe they have read millions of emails so far and that this is the main goal. That's why the web version can't disable this option. Both versions of Outlook are a failure, I don't know which one is worse, classic or new. I don't know if anyone has tried Outlook on a Mac computer. It looks much better and on top of everything, it has profiles where multiple email addresses can be placed and classified. For example, a profile for business and private email.

I went back to 365 Personal Classic, it was fine. Zero AI garbage - yay!

I have a zero policy toward ads, and use Brave browser, since the trusted old ad blockers don't work as well as they used to.

But MS insists that Edge is required!

I opened a safe link from a trusted source, and it opened in Edge with this stupid 20-30 pixel high banner, that said that 'Safe links from Outlook and other compatible 365 apps open in MS Edge' for some garbage reason.

But true to MS current Our Way or the Highway mentality, there was no way to turn that off either! And to make it worse it stayed there even when I opened Edge normally!

So I took the Highway and cancelled my sub - yet again! And guess what, the same said safe-link opens fine from Wino Mail in Brave.
So there you have it - MS just forces to us to do stuff their way with their apps simply because they want too.

By the way MS why can I NOT uninstall Edge - I don't need it, and it is MY computer not yours.
I really think Microsoft should be rebranded to MicroSmoogle.

I went back to 365 Personal Classic, it was fine. Zero AI garbage - yay!

I have a zero policy toward ads, and use Brave browser, since the trusted old ad blockers don't work as well as they used to.

But MS insists that Edge is required!

I opened a safe link from a trusted source, and it opened in Edge with this stupid 20-30 pixel high banner, that said that 'Safe links from Outlook and other compatible 365 apps open in MS Edge' for some garbage reason.

But true to MS current Our Way or the Highway mentality, there was no way to turn that off either! And to make it worse it stayed there even when I opened Edge normally!

So I took the Highway and cancelled my sub - yet again! And guess what, the same said safe-link opens fine from Wino Mail in Brave.
So there you have it - MS just forces to us to do stuff their way with their apps simply because they want too.

By the way MS why can I NOT uninstall Edge - I don't need it, and it is MY computer not yours.
I really think Microsoft should be rebranded to MicroSmoogle.

I have never tried Brave Browser. I am looking for it now , No matter how hard we try to prevent it, it is no longer possible with their AI capabilities. It's over. I have transferred my entire mail, which I have been keeping for years on an HDD, to OneDrive. Now I am mad because there's no going back. This makes me very angry. Who guarantees that one day AI won't summarize all my mail and sell all the information it has found to someone? I have nothing to hide, but I don't want anyone to analyze me. It's unheard of what they are doing."

Thank you! Thank you! THANK YOU!!!!! Finally, it's gone!!!

I don't use the browser version, so this solution worked just fine.