Google’s actions remind me of the sci-fi movies where a couple giant corporations control the world.
They sort of do. Even every page at FR (and 90% of every other website) has a google 'spy bot' (Java scripts and / or Java Apps) on it.
Blessedly FR will still work OK if you block the google crap from running, But a lot of other websites won't work properly if you block google, and more and more won't show you ANYTHING if you don't allow google to spy on what you do there.