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Unless I want to see what the link is before clicking. Or copy the link.

Or navigate to the link without waiting for however long it takes for Google's redirect endpoint to respond.

Google seems to be swimming in hypocrisy, as they develop and use scrapers.

PS: I do not understand why people keep using Google search, the results turned biased and mediocre.

Why are you defending the ruination of one of the basic principles of hypertext?

Why are Google apologists flagging my other comments?

Ask the grifters and bots. If you don’t adapt get ready to get bulldozed.

Because Google search isn't a hypertext document, it's a web app that presents dynamic ephemeral content to the user. There's no need for stable hyperlinks, since either you will click them within a few seconds, or they will disappear forever, and it shouldn't be a problem to indirect via Google when clicking them, since you just made a request to Google to get the link in the first place.