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.
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.
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.
If it messes up other things, they're inaccessible. Mostly it makes everything that respects it much more pleasant to use. IIRC things that don't respect it will use their 'normal' animations and that is what it is... unlike disabling animation in Android with developer tools, that removes almost all animations, but breaks a meaningful amount of software that monitors animation to trigger behavior... You can get stuck in pages where the animation done never fired.