Oh dear, if the swipe is a system level action, normally that means it can't be overridden 🙁
I think you can change the swipe gestures in the system settings though?
We have similar trouble on iOS, since Safari seems to handle side swipes as unavoidable back/forward navigation gestures. It's difficult to handle this, I was aiming for a similar pattern to the Wikipedia app where you can swipe in the contents from the right, but it seems hard to do this in a web app.