It's not just a Google annoyance, these types of things are all over the web. I have uBlock Origin settings to limit these types of things, like others in this thread have explained.

But there's a bigger issue with the modern web. Here's my message to any web developer, company, organization, anyone who has control over content on the public web: if I visit your page and I have to click away something in order to do what I came to do, you have failed miserably.