About those tracking functions: I just found out that those ridiculously long urls that that come up in the address bar when you open a google link is actually tracking code. Actually, I was looking up why there is so much bloat in google searches, you know, everything including the kitchen sink comes up when you do a search, often stuff totally unrelated to what you are searching for. That led me to an article about the long urls which I despise. Try copying one of them to send to someone or to post.
Well, I discovered there is an extension for that.
Google Search Link Fix for Mobile and Desktop. I installed it. I tried it. No more tracking google url misery (at least for now). Actually there are two different extensions, but the first one I looked at requires javascript to be enabled, which I have disabled and will remain that way.