I want to get rid of them because I want to press ↑ on my keyboard to quickly get to the last item on the result list, but don’t want to have to cycle through the search icons.
None of the solutions I found online worked, so I thought I might give it a try here.
Open settings, go to search from the left hand menu, scroll down to the list of search shortcuts and either permanently remove the ones you don’t want, or just click the checkbox next to it and it won’t show up in the address bar.
Also that level of pixelization is easily reversed, better to just black out the parts you don’t want visible.