Sometimes I wonder if people enjoy being blindly knee jerk reactionary.
Thankfully switching to Brave solved my issue and this stupid feature is disabled.
[0] https://perishablepress.com/disable-chrome-scrolltotextfragm...
I think most in the comment chain were thinking of the case of sending a link to a friend where you want them to be scrolled to some specific text. I often want to create these links for others when linking to long pages, or technical documentation.
I haven’t tried Brave (the crypto stuff puts me off), but if you’re interested in a good alternative to Google Search (that doesn’t link text fragments) you should check out Kagi. It’s paid, but it’s worth funding a Google competitor on principle IMO.
Only Google Search does that. What a knee jerk response...