The corporates keep finding ways to reintroduce the same shitty popup ads from the 90s to defeat whatever’s been put in place to keep it from happening. Absolutely no sense of nuance. It’s not the specific delivery mechanism users dislike, it’s the whole terrible UX pattern. Stop trying to make me do shit that’s not what I’m trying to do!
It’s not just you. At some point, search’s primary purpose went from “finding the information you’re looking for” to “getting paid to put links in front of you”. Then they kept iterating on it, quarter by quarter, for a very long time.