The blink tag was, of course, much hated back in the day, so as an experiment, I took the binary of whatever browser I was using (Netscape, I guess), searched for "blink", and changed it to "blonk". Tada, no more blinking!
Binary editing was/is good fun. I remember replacing "__gnu_warning" with "__gnu_whining" to quiet some dumb nannying around gets(). Yeah, sure, buffer overruns, but if I'm writing some throwaway program, I can just not overrun the buffer.
I do this kind of thing with the Slack client (a silver lining of Electron apps: it’s dead simple) so that I can kill features I don’t like, such as hiding notifications or stopping the signal that I’m writing a message.
