Link to the report: https://research.mozilla.org/files/2024/01/Over-the-Edge-Report-January-2024.pdf

Entire report is not worth reading. There is a lot of academic verbiage. Just the screenshots and the accompanying explanations tell the story.

I’m not usually one to harp about the good old days of Microsoft but I have used XP, Vista and 7 in the past and I don’t recall anything like this. Just look at this shit. These kinds of banners and popups are something that literal viruses and malware injected into the OS. Now the largest tech company in the world is baking it into their premier operating system. And this just scratches the surface of how consumer hostile the OS is as a whole. There are countless similar aspects unrelated to Edge.

TLDR: Use Linux 🐧