Found this, in settings.json insert the following. It might turn off more than you wanted, but at least that pop up will be gone.
"editor.hover.enabled": false,
To find settings.json (the right one), open VSCode and push Ctrl+P. Type "settings.json" and make sure you open up the one in AppData (or wherever you installed VSCode in).
When you press Ctrl+P looking for the settings.json file it will show you two of them, Open Default settings.json and Open settings.json.
you should paste this:
The references one will disable the MDN Reference link only. The documentation setting all the MDN documentation as well.
"html.hover.documentation": "Show tag and attribute documentation in hover.",
"html.hover.references": "Show references to MDN in hover."
And for v1.54 extending to css, scss and less:
Hovers in CSS/LESS/SCSS and HTML
You can now fine tune the content of hovers in HTML and CSS:
Do not show documentation from MDN
Do not show the link to the MDN page Use the settings css.hover.documentation and css.hover.references resp the similar
settings in html, css, scss and less