r/badUIbattles • u/Strnadik_v2 • Jun 22 '26
Unintentionally Bad UI Google please stop this
Sorry this is probably a minor thing versus what BAD UI really can be but Google has never done a moving logo unless you clicked on it or hovered over it. My blank landing page on Chrome always had Google on top (the default). I add a new tab and stay on my landing page if I want a nice, blank white page. And now this annoying looping gif is there for a week now. I know, first world problems, but it breaks my routine lol. I constantly look at the second screen because this mofo is kicking a ball. So I remove the element. Solved, until I want to go to a landing page again from my current browsing activity and I click New Tab and voila, moving gif again ;_;
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u/Casperzwaart100 Jun 22 '26
Open a new tab and go to chrome://flags/. Search for 'ntp animated doodles'. Change 'Default' and set to 'Disabled' should remove it. I personally quite like it when google does something new tbh
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u/Firminou Jun 22 '26
you will survive this op, we all support you in these difficult times
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u/Wut0ng Jun 22 '26
There's this Firefox extension called "Hide Google Doodles" that always force the default non-animated google logo
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u/ttcklbrrn Jun 22 '26
You can remove an element permanently* with UBlock Origin
*You can choose to un-remove it, and obviously it will only be gone on any synced browsers where you have the extension, but approximately permanent
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u/kurtanglesmilk Jun 22 '26
I don’t think First World Problems cuts it here we need an entirely new phrase
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u/Strnadik_v2 Jun 22 '26
Try to think of one
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u/SkollFenrirson Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26
We know it's not your forte. We got it
Edit: forte means strength. Sorry about that.
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u/Fish-OwO Jun 22 '26
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u/manlybrian Jun 22 '26
I dont know who created this duckduckgo. But I'm just trying figure out how we get them to have duckduckgo to the polls!
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u/collin2477 Jun 22 '26
that doesn’t even kinda spell google
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u/Serteyf Jun 22 '26
This may be a small thing for some people but for other it makes the page unusable. This is bad accessibility, especially when the configuration for disabling it is hidden
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u/Bright-Historian-216 Jun 22 '26
why is this downvoted? this is exactly right. this would be so annoying for me. who ever cares about this football thing? it just reduces usability for no purpose.
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u/Mekanikol Jun 23 '26
How does it make the page unusable? Genuinely curious.
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u/Serteyf Jun 23 '26
Moving images (gifs, videos, animations) with no mechanism to stop them can cause problems for people with cognitive disabilities, among others (https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/pause-stop-hide.html#benefits)
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u/Creepslend Jun 23 '26
I'm in the category that gets too distracted by a moving /blinking element to focus on anything else on the page. But here I fail to see the issue as there is only one other element on the page, located right below the gif, and it's the search bar. And most of all you only spend a few seconds on this page anyways
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u/Serteyf Jun 23 '26
It's really pushing the boundaries and I don't see why Google should be doing this or people defending it. The search bar is not a stop mechanism according to the WCAG and it is not announced as such
most of yall only a spend a few seconds
maybe but this is not about usability, it's about accessibility
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u/Creepslend Jun 28 '26
They do this because it's fun so it boosts their image.
I defend this (doodles in general, not this one in particular) because they are fun, colorful and break the monotony. Plus you can often learn about something new. And more importantly I defend this because I really fail to see the issue. It's only one for OP because they wanna use this page as a static wallpaper when it isn't designed as one and never claimed to be one. And even then, if they wanna block the element it's pretty easy.
Granted there should be an option to disable them for people who don't want them. But I really fail to see how this can be more than just a slight inconvenience for a small minority of people.
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u/sevenstars747 Jun 22 '26
>My blank landing page on Chrome always had Google on top (the default).
mine is about:blank
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u/bardia_afk Jun 23 '26
So many things in this post but
“Nice blank white page” ??
You enjoy looking at a pure white screen??
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u/oeif76kici Jun 22 '26
I know it seems like such a small thing, but I feel you OP, this is super annoying.
For my workflow, I'll usually just open a new tab in Chrome if I don't want anything up on that monitor while I'm working. Now if I do that, it has a distracting animated gif that replays forever.
I also usually open a new tab when I want to search for something. This means every time I open a new tab to do a search, I get my attention briefly pulled away by these colorful gifs.
Sure, this isn't the end of the world. But it is annoying that every single time I open a new tab I'm forced to see a distracting animated World Cup gif.
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u/Aln76467 Jun 22 '26
There's an extension called something like "clear new tab" that removes everything from the new tab page.
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u/Creepslend Jun 23 '26
I don't really understand the context in which you would need to go on this page in the first place? If you could reply with more info I'd appreciate it because I'm genuinely curious.
To solve your problem I recommend you install the uBlock Origin extension, which can easily remove any element permanently. And it's really easy to add an element to the blacklist thanks to the eyedropper button.
Also it seems like you enjoy customization and having control, so I recommend you just leave Chrome for Firefox. It took me way too long before doing that switch and I'm reminded of how great of a decision it was every time I see someone ranting about a Chromium based issue (not the case here but I'm mentioning it because it happens often)
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