Also, most people don’t even have a static ip address so they might have banned a different location altogether and the banned ip address moved.

It’s training itself to pass those mouse based “I’m human” checks that some sites use.

They don’t have Edge installed so they are being requested to get it so that they can open the link.

Lots of apps override the default behaviour when opening links and ask you to use a specific browser. I actually do use Edge and have been asked if I wanted to use Chrome.