> shoves the ads right under my nose You can turn them off. You can't really turn off the ads with Google. Chrome is designed to send you to Google Search whe

> shoves the ads right under my nose You can turn them off. You can't really turn off the ads with Google. Chrome is designed to send you to Google Search where you are encouraged to click on ads and visit other Google sites instead of the URL you intended to visit. That's why they turned the URL bar into a search bar. At least in Firefox you can split search into a separate box.