How to remove the annoying google privacy tool pop up?

"I want to use google ..."

Do you mean the search engine? When I go to "www.google.com" I don't see any reference to a "google privacy tool" whether i'm signed into Google or not. I don't get any pop-up. Neither is any such software listed in my Safari Extensions.

As to your last question, maybe the behavior is built into Chrome, so they don't need to ask for extra permission. But that's only a guess.

As the other commenter says, a very quick workaround is to use a privacy-oriented search engine, such as startpage or duckduckgo. If you go to Safari .. Preferences .. Search, you can specify the default search engine it will use.

John Galt wrote:

Then don't use Google. Problem solved.

I realize my reply may seem curt but it is accurate. If you use Google including any of their products and services you forfeit any expectation of privacy. That is not a matter of opinion; those are the words of a federal court judge in a privacy-related case brought against Google a long ago. It should be common knowledge by now: you are the product Google sells.

His words, not mine.

By agreeing to use Google you forfeit the right to that product and any expectations of privacy you may have had for it. How does it feel to have been commoditized? Not that it matters. They're not your feelings any more.

I know theres no such thing as privacy online nowadays, but we all have a right to have a choice in how our data is being used online and have a right to protect our privacy.

Then don't use Google. Problem solved.

There are public indications of Apple's interest in developing their own search technology. It's about time.

... I never realised or copped on to the fact that I could do this.

The reason is that Google pays Apple billions of dollars every year to be Safari's default search engine. Easy money.