They're not annoying, this is stepping on little people just because you can. It's malicious because the process (i.e. Google as an entity and everyone relevant inside of it) does not care, and quite honestly by trying to go online and saying it is okay you make it worse: Any decision maker is going to see folks condoning it and think "can I go a little bit further next time?". That's how we got to this point in the first place.
They're not annoying, this is stepping on little people just because you can. It's malicious because the process (i.e. Google as an entity and everyone relevant inside of it) does not care, and quite honestly by trying to go online and saying it is okay you make it worse: Any decision maker is going to see folks condoning it and think "can I go a little bit further next time?". That's how we got to this point in the first place.