That appears to have killed most of the garbage.  However, it did not affect the useless AI from pushing itself on me.
 

Everybody: "Hey Intuit, we'd like fewer popups and garbage that interfere with our work while we're using your product!"

Intuit: "Ok, here, have a useless AI 'helper' that you can't turn off at all, ever!"

Thanks, Intuit. You're doing a fantastic job of listening to your customers.

INTUIT STILL SUCKS!!!  I CAN'T BLOCK THE POP-UPS ON 2024 QB DESKTOP.  

CUSTOMER SERVICE SUCKS.

HELP!!!!!!!!!

These are not pop up windows that appear, they are in the webpages in the QBO system. And they are 99% of the time not to "guide users" but are to sell more intuit products. This is a completely unacceptable intrusion and disruption of productivity for paying customers. Add the ability to turn it off immediately.