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

8 points by arnejenssen 5 hours ago | 11 comments

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.

RickS 6 minutes ago |

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

ornornor 16 minutes ago |

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

roserugco 3 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 3 hours ago | |

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

esperent 5 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 5 hours ago | |

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

andyjohnson0 37 minutes ago | | |

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

FergusArgyll 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.

ferrouswheel 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 5 hours ago |

You could use bing?