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I wonder what conversation at bloomberg resulted in adding all of those extremely distracting (and annoying) animated gifs..

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Holy crap that is annoying. Is there a way to pause all animated gifs in chrome? Congratulations, Bloomberg, you captured the essence of a Geocities site. This has to be a not so subtle graphic design joke.

I opened up Chrome Developer tools and added img { display: none } which hides everything but the top banner, which you can scroll past ;)

Good call.

Add in a * { background: none !important } and you're golden.

I have uBlock Origin, and it was as simple as right-click>Block Element and selecting the suggestion of amazon_echo_animation_.gif
The filter for the curious:
||www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-amazon-echo/amazon_echo_animation_*.gif

There are several extensions, I use Gif Jam, which only plays animated gifs on demand.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bclnijbemellankmoa...

For Firefox users, I recommend the Toggle Animated GIFs add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-animat...
Other useful config settings: image.animation_mode, media.autoplay.enabled

Bloomberg has really gone off the deep end of the design pool. It seemed to start with those somewhat janky, but pretty nice zero-padded headline overlays on the pics, and culminated in this: http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-design/ which...well.

Big budget syndrome. If you've got $200 million to make a movie, the bridges MUST blow up.
Bloomberg stands alone among U.S. media companies as a place with lots of available cash for whatever projects catch the top folks' fancy.

Hahahaha. I'm picturing HBO Silicon Valley 'doors go like this' guys look of disappointment if he funded a film for $200m and nothing blew up.

If you like that gif, checkout Bloomberg's 404 gif...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11527578

This made my day.

We seem to have come full circle since <blink>

I agree with you, however I did enjoy opening up the developer console in Firefox and deleting all of the obnoxious background.

Thank you! That works for chrome too. Right-click => inspect, then on the highlighted line the inspection window right-click => delete element.

Even quicker - right click->block element in Ad block Plus. Done. I too found them extremely distracting to a point where I couldn't read the text.

This works on Pinterest, too, for their obnoxious sign up black screen.

I found them wonderful.

Yeah I enjoy all the stuff they have done to make the pages interesting. When I just need to focus on the text I use Speedy Readie.

I've been using Animation Policy [1] to only play gifs through once and it's worked pretty well so far (in contradiction to the reviews on the chrome store).
edit: Except, apparently, on that site.
[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/animation-policy/n...

I got yelled at and downvoted on Reddit because I said their "What is Code" article was a horrific disaster of design
http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-cod...
CW: REALLY BRIGHT COLORS, LARGE TEXT AND ANNOYING GIFS.

Congrats, here's one person who agrees with you. It's like Bloomberg has given some hipster interns full access to design the website. They probably think it's so awesome that they're using all the dynamic components

Annoying gifs seems to be the popular thing at the moment. I've backed several Kickstarter campaigns recently and every single one of them fills their status update posts with stupid gifs.

Amen! I had to cover them up so I could read the damn article.

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