Ask HN: Is there a way to stop the animated Google Doodles?

aarnejenssen about 6 hours ago 11 comments

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The animated Google doodles that appear when I open an new browser tab in Chrome is distracting. The Doodle is soccer/World cup animation. I want it to not animate.

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RickS•13 minutes ago

Toggle the "prefer reduced motion" accessibility setting if on mac

ornornor•23 minutes ago

Maybe that’s the nudge you needed to try a better search engine and browser?

roserugco•about 4 hours ago

You can use DDG for search engine, or if not, You can use brave as it has support to block elements by right clicking and selecting element to block it.

arnejenssen•about 4 hours ago

Thanks. Good idea. This is the easiest change to do while the World Cup lasts.

esperent•about 6 hours ago

Yes, you can use ublock. There's a button on the extension to remove elements from a website. Or if you're on mobile you can use Brave browser which has the same function.

arnejenssen•about 5 hours ago

Thanks. I have uBlock. But it looks like with the latest Chrome it does not block

andyjohnson0•44 minutes ago

Switch to Firefox. And/or Kagi. Google is unlikely to be your friend.

FergusArgyll•about 4 hours ago

On 149.0.7827.156, Zapper mode still works for me. However...

If you just open a new tab and use google that way, it seems zapper mode doesn't work there. If you navigate to google.com it does work there.

I think Chrome might lock down what's really a chrome page and not let extensions mess around.

arnejenssen•about 4 hours ago

Good idea with the Zapper. It works for pages with an URL, but when opening a new tab there is no webpage to "zap", just the Google Doodle.

My solution now: Switch to other search engine (Brave/DuckDuckGo)

ferrouswheel•about 3 hours ago

I really want this too.

The fifa doodle is completely annoying bullshit. So is the icon change for Google on Android.

Makes me despise FIFA even more as well as the MBAs that forced it into the products.

We need to purge these people from tech companies so we can build human centric technology again instead of money centric technology.

tejonutella•about 5 hours ago

You could use bing?