How to choose a browser - see link in bottom
If MS was to sell less licenses than there out there, or claims more than actual, I would suspect there would a tax-ivasion liability against them. So if they have claimed sales of 3bil then they brag of 4bil users, someone would notice.
On the other hand, in terms of anonymity of browsing you'd rather be identified as one of the many with the exact same setup than being unique. TB actually used this to even the mozilla version that was most popular, and even advised not to adjust the default screen size or window size to merge with the "croud".
But you have a valid concern, when rags come out and say 97% don't use linux/bsd when in fact 14% do.
Using vanilla ff or chrome is the worst possible way to protect your personal information. https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/browsers
Have you tried/installed nvme-cli and/or xnvme
I wonder if your issues come from buggy nvme modules