No, he donated that. He could have chosen to simply ignore the icon, as thousands of others do daily.
Once you know "this is just a little curiosity button", it's easy enough to ignore if you're not into that.
(Today's is in reference to van Gogh's 170th birthday, which is a nice little "oh!" moment, but not one I clicked through to see more)
None of those clickable features in the Taskbar open your default browser, they all open Edge.
Even one stupid garlic ad is one too many.