Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_LsO3I_41M&t=11s
At 0:12, the subscribe button will have a rainbow-colored border animation around it for about a second.
Whenever someone says "subscribe", or "like" in the video, the respective elements get this animation. As you can tell, it is annoying unnecessary and distracting. For more info, see this reddit thread
The filter removes everything in the yt-smartimation element except than the content itself, i.e., removing the animation.
This can also be handled by setting some experiment flags, which are checked for in YouTube's desktop_polymer_enable_wil_icons.js script:
Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_LsO3I_41M&t=11s At 0:12, the subscribe button will have a rainbow-colored border animation around it for about a second. Whenever someone says "subscribe", or "like" in the video, the respective elements get this animation. As you can tell, it is annoying unnecessary and distracting. For more info, see this reddit thread
The filter removes everything in the
yt-smartimationelement except than the content itself, i.e., removing the animation.This can also be handled by setting some experiment flags, which are checked for in YouTube's
desktop_polymer_enable_wil_icons.jsscript:But these may be removed at any point, so I went for the manual approach.