If you want to see where Google search results really point to, you can right click it and then hover over it to get the real destination... it's been like this for 15+ years (google changes the destination on-click).
Just checked; and while they did indeed use to change the URL (on mousedown (!) - which was infuriating, because right-clicking to copy URLs produced a mess I'd then have to pass to data:text/plain,... in a new tab to extract the URL-encoded... agh), they currently really do just leave the link alone now.
They just fire off a request to google.com/url?... to track the click before letting you on your merry way.
That used to be my strategy until a salesman knocked on my door offering heavily discounted ceiling insulation, which is something I had half-heartedly always wanted but never got round to buying. He said my address was one chosen by the government to give a subsidy to but funds were limited so it was first come first served or risk missing out. Sounded suspicious so I checked with the government who confirmed everything the salesman said was true. I got a 2nd quote from another installer but the door-knocker was cheaper so I bought his. I wouldn't have known the subsidy was available without him and would have missed out on a genuine rare high-value giveaway.
https://wp.josh.com/2019/05/06/breaking-news-google-adwords-...