Small white square overlays every last command in Illustrator

Hi Community!

This has bugged me for years, and I can't find anything about it in any forum.  Whenever I paste an object onto the artboard, there will be a small white square indicating that command's x/y coordinates, such that when I move the artboard within the desktop, that same small white square will remain at the same x/y location, overlaid upon any artwork that is moved through that same neutral x/y coordinate.  If there's no object/artwork, i.e. just blank artboard, over that neutral x/y coordinate, then there's no square - only when an object intersects that coordinate does the square re-appear, superpositioned, thus blocking the artwork underneath it.  The square never changes size; it's about 1/16"x1/16" (yes, I am an autodidact of a certain age...) no matter what the magnification of the view.  It's white with a process-blue outline.

Whatever it's designed to tell me, it's the default setting, and I just don't care.  It is always, always in the way of a clean view of whatever I'm working on, such that I am finally taking the time to describe this in detail here.  I need to know how to turn it off.

Thanks to you veterans of any age who can dispatch this annoying feature of the program I depend most upon.

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